Virginia House Bill 2500 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Omnibus Citizen Bill of Rights. Creates the Citizen Bill of Rights designed to secure rights guaranteed to citizens of the Commonwealth by the Constitution of Virginia and achieves this goal by (i) providing a trial de novo for appeals from state agency decisions under the Administrative Process Act and local zoning and land development decisions, (ii) removing the presumption of official regularity and correctness in such appeals, (iii) increasing the cap on damages recoverable against the Commonwealth under the Virginia Tort Claims Act to $1 million from $100,000, (iv) increasing the statute of limitations in inverse condemnation cases to five years from three years, and (v) requiring the payment of reasonable costs and expert witness fees, and in certain cases attorney fees, to the property owner in condemnation cases where the amount awarded to the owner at trial exceeds the amount offered by the condemnor.

Omnibus Citizen Bill of Rights; created.

Del. Ward Armstrong [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2011-01-21		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2011-01-21		House: Presented and ordered printed 11103675D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2285	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	2314	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4007.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4009	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4025	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4026	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4027	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4028	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4029	(n/a)	See Bill Text
25	1	245	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	195.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	246	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+HB2500
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2500+hil