Virginia House Bill 415 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Certain gender-specific crimes; penalty. Makes applicable to all persons, regardless of the gender of the victim, the crimes of (i) assisting or aiding in the abduction of or threatening to abduct a female under 16 years of age for the purpose of concubinage or prostitution, (ii) placing or leaving one's wife in a bawdy place, and (iii) defaming the chaste character of a female. The bill also provides that a defendant placed on probation may be ordered to provide support for the defendant's spouse; currently, the law only provides for support of a defendant's wife.

Gender-specific crimes, certain; penalty.

Del. Marcus Simon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-05	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-05	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101296D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	368	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	417	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	49	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	305	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB415
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB415+hil