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| Region | Virginia |
| Issue | LGBT discrimination |
| Status | No protections |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | Apr 15, 2010 |
| Description | There is no law offering blanket protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Both are lacking from the Virginia hate crimes law. |
| Sources | https://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+52-8.5 |
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Revision History (3)
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0 | Original entry | |
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| Status | No protections |
| Start Date | (unknown) |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | There is no law offering blanket protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Both are lacking from the Virginia hate crimes law. |
| Sources | https://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+52-8.5 |
Reports (3)
- Newer law has been passed "7/1/2020
Hate crimes; gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation; penalty. Adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation 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 adds gender, disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation to the categories of hate crimes that are to be reported to the central repository of information regarding hate crimes maintained by the Virginia State Police. The bill provides that a person who is subjected to acts of intimidation or harassment, violence directed against his person, or vandalism to his real or personal property, where such acts are motivated by gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation, may bring a civil action to recover his damages. 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 gender, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill also eliminates the mandatory minimum terms of confinement for such hate crimes.
https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB179"
- Newer law has been passed "Virginia Values Act
Senate Bill 868
2/20/2020
“Prohibited discrimination; public accommodations, employment, credit, and housing: causes of action; sexual orientation and gender identity. Creates causes of action for unlawful discrimination in public accommodations and employment in the Virginia Human Rights Act.”"
- Newer law has been passed "https://www.mcguirewoods.com/client-resources/Alerts/2020/4/virginia-adds-lgbtq-protections-to-anti-discrimination-law"