Virginia House Bill 641 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 1 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-01 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Jurisdiction of general district court; arbitration. Establishes that the general district courts have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts to submit matters to arbitration where the amount in controversy is within the jurisdictional limits of the general district court. The bill provides that any party that disagrees with an order by a general district court granting an application to compel arbitration may appeal the decision to the circuit court. The introduced bill was a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.

General district court; arbitration.

Del. James Leftwich [R]

2016-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) (Y: 39 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-19 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N 2-A) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2016-02-02 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 23 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-20 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-01		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181)
2016-03-01		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 181 (effective 7/1/16)
2016-02-25		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 3, 2016
2016-02-25	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/25/16
2016-02-25	Senate	Signed by President
2016-02-24	House	Signed by Speaker
2016-02-24	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB641ER)
2016-02-24	House	Enrolled
2016-02-22	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
2016-02-22	Senate	Read third time
2016-02-19	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2016-02-17	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N 2-A)
2016-02-03	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2016-02-02	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-02-02	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-02-01	House	Printed as engrossed 16100263D-E
2016-02-01	House	Engrossed by House as amended HB641E
2016-02-01	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2016-02-01	House	Read second time
2016-01-29	House	Read first time
2016-01-27	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
2016-01-20	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N)
2016-01-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2016-01-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100263D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	77	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	577	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	581.014	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	581.016	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB641
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB641+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB641E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB641ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+CHAP0181+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H0802V0017+HB0641
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H08V0014+HB0641
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+HV0196+HB0641
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S03V0251+HB0641
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0514HB0641+HB0641
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0536HB0641+HB0641