VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2016 SESSION

• history | hilite | pdf | print version

16100780D
HOUSE BILL NO. 272 Offered January 13, 2016 Prefiled December 31, 2015 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-109.1, relating to receipt and publication of illegally obtained information; penalty. ---------- Patron-- Albo ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-109.1 as follows:

§ 18.2-109.1. Receipt and publication of illegally obtained information; penalty.

A. Any person who receives from another person any illegally obtained documents, records, or other information, including computer data as defined in § 18.2-152.2, and who disseminates or publishes or causes to be disseminated or published such documents, records, or other information knowing that such documents, records, or other information were illegally obtained is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

B. The provisions of this section shall not apply to (i) an interactive computer service as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 230(f) for content disseminated or published by another person or (ii) any speech protected by Article I, Section 12 of the Constitution of Virginia.