Virginia House Bill 609 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
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 action for the deprivation of rights; duties and liabilities of certain employers. Creates a civil cause of action for the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities pursuant to the constitutions and laws of the United States and the Commonwealth due to the acts or omissions of either a public employer or its employee and provides that a plaintiff may maintain an action to establish liability and recover compensatory damages, punitive damages, and equitable relief against the public employer and its employee. The bill provides that sovereign immunity is not a defense to such an action. The bill further provides that public employers owe a duty of reasonable care to third parties in the hiring, supervision, training, retention, and use of their employees and that a person who claims to have suffered injury or sustained damages caused, in whole or in part, by a breach of this duty may maintain an action to establish liability and recover compensatory damages, punitive damages, and equitable relief against such public employer.

Civil action for the deprivation of rights; duties and liabilities of certain employers.

Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]	Del. Nadarius Clark [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]	Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]
Del. Don Scott [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Shelly Simonds [D]	Del. Luke Torian [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 22103926D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	42.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB609
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB609+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB609F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H0802V0030+HB0609