Virginia House Bill 724 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-02-10 - House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

False advertising; liability of real estate brokers and salespersons; exemption. Exempts a licensed real estate broker or salesperson from criminal and civil liability for making an advertisement that contains any promise, assertion, representation, or statement of fact that is untrue, deceptive, or misleading if the information was (i) provided to such broker or salesperson by his client; (ii) obtained from a governmental entity; (iii) obtained from a nongovernmental person or entity that obtained the information from a governmental entity; or (iv) obtained from a person licensed, certified, or registered to provide professional services in the Commonwealth, upon which such broker or salesperson relies, and such broker or salesperson did not (a) have actual knowledge that the information was false or (b) act in reckless disregard of the truth.

False advertising; exempts real estate brokers and salespersons from criminal and civil liability.

Del. David Yancey [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-10		House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
2012-02-06		House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2013 by voice vote
2012-01-16		House: Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2012-01-11		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2012-01-11		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12102297D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	216	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	1	68.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB724
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB724+hil