Virginia House Bill 845 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

False statements during campaigns; civil penalty. Prohibits a candidate from, with actual malice, sponsoring a political advertisement that contains a false statement of material fact, or otherwise making, publishing, disseminating, or circulating a false statement of material fact, about another candidate for the office to which the sponsoring candidate is seeking to be elected, if such statement is calculated to injure the targeted candidate or his candidacy. Any violation shall be proven by clear and convincing evidence, and, if so proven, a civil penalty of $2,500 shall be assessed against the sponsoring candidate.

False statements during campaigns; civil penalty.

Del. Riley Ingram [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2018-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2018-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102155D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	1016.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB845
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB845+hil