Virginia House Bill 209 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 29 2017 - 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]

Duty to take reasonable precautions; criminal conduct of a third party. Provides that any person owning, operating, or managing (i) a commercial property used primarily for business purposes or (ii) residential real property that is owned by a person who owns five or more dwelling units that are used primarily for rental as a dwelling unit shall have the duty to take reasonable precautions to protect the tenants, other authorized occupants, or guests or invitees of such property against injury caused by the criminal conduct of a third party, if the danger of injury by such conduct is known to such owner, operator, or manager or is reasonably foreseeable. The bill provides that the same duty applies to any private security services business contracted to provide services to such person owning, operating, or managing such property.

Duty to take reasonable precautions; criminal conduct of a third party.

Del. Michael Mullin [D]

2018-01-31 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-31	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
2018-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
2017-12-29	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-12-29	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101369D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	44.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB209
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB209+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0802V0069+HB0209