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2024 SESSION
HB 18 Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity, penalties.
Introduced by: Dan I. Helmer | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation because of such individual's ethnic origin and prohibits such discrimination. The bill also adds victims who are intentionally selected because of their ethnic origin to the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results in a higher criminal penalty for the offense. The bill also provides that no provider or user of an interactive computer service on the Internet shall be liable for any action voluntarily taken by it in good faith to restrict access to material that the provider or user considers to be intended to incite hatred on the basis of ethnic origin. This bill is identical to SB 7.
FULL TEXT
- 12/11/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101031D pdf | impact statements
- 02/07/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106860D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB18ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/02/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 12/11/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101031D
- 12/11/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/31/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/05/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106860D-H1
- 02/09/24 House: Read first time
- 02/12/24 House: Read second time
- 02/12/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24106860D-H1
- 02/12/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB18H1
- 02/13/24 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/21/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/28/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/24 Senate: Read third time
- 03/01/24 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB18ER)
- 03/07/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/02/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 266 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/02/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0266)