Virginia House Bill 505 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons. Provides that a circuit court may enter an order joining, coordinating, consolidating, or transferring civil actions upon finding that separate civil actions brought by a plaintiff on behalf of multiple similarly situated persons involve common questions of law or fact and arise out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences. The bill requires the Supreme Court to promulgate rules no later than November 1, 2022, governing such actions. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023.

Civil actions; filed on behalf of multiple persons.

Del. Michael Mullin [D]

2022-02-02 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2022-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2022-01-21	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
2022-01-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2022-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102203D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	267.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB505
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB505+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB505F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H0802V0022+HB0505