Virginia Senate Bill 1180 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 1 2021 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [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, 2021, governing such actions. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2022. 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, 2021, governing such actions. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2022.

Civil actions; actions filed on behalf of multiple similarly situated persons.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2021-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) (Y: 21 N: 18 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2021-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N) (Y: 9 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-08	House	Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
2021-02-05	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2021-02-05	House	Read first time
2021-02-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2021-02-02	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
2021-02-01	Senate	Printed as engrossed 21103326D-ES1
2021-02-01	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB1180ES1
2021-02-01	Senate	Amendments by Senator Surovell agreed to
2021-02-01	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2021-02-01	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 21103326D-S1
2021-02-01	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2021-02-01	Senate	Read second time
2021-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
2021-01-27	Senate	Committee substitute printed 21103326D-S1
2021-01-27	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N)
2021-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2021-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102394D

SB1180 (Carry Over) 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote

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?211+sum+SB1180
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1180+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1180S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1180ES1+hil
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+amd+SB1180AS
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/21103326D.pdf
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S03V0092+SB1180
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0184SB1180+SB1180
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0240SB1180+SB1180