Virginia Senate Bill 409 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-17 - Left in Finance
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Harassment by computer; impersonating another; penalty. Provides that a person who uses a computer to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, make an obscene proposal, or threaten an illegal or immoral act with the intent to defraud any person is guilty of harassment by computer, a Class 1 misdemeanor. Under current law, in order to be guilty of harassment by computer, a person must have the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person. The bill also provides that it is a Class 6 felony to commit harassment by computer if the person has assumed the identity of another living individual.

Harassment by computer; impersonating another, penalty.

Sen. George Barker [D]

2016-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 0-N) (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-17	Senate	Left in Finance
2016-01-27	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2016-01-27	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 0-N)
2016-01-27	Senate	Committee substitute printed 16104849D-S1
2016-01-12	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-12	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102450D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	152.7:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB409
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB409+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB409S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S03V0087+SB0409