Virginia House Bill 1526 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-10 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children; penalty. Provides that a person under 18 years of age who uses a communications system for the purposes of soliciting, with lascivious intent, any child he knows or has reason to believe is at least 13 years of age but younger than 15 years of age to knowingly and intentionally commit certain sexual acts is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if such person is at least three years older than the child. The bill also provides that a person under 18 years of age who uses a communications system for the purposes of soliciting, with lascivious intent, any child he knows or has reason to believe is younger than 13 years of age to knowingly and intentionally commit certain sexual acts is guilty of a Class 5 felony.

Children; use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses, penalty.

Del. Mark Berg [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-10	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2015-01-06	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101676D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	374.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB1526
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB1526+hil