Virginia Senate Bill 1302 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-01-30 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N 2-A)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Rights of persons with disabilities; procedures for certain actions; website accessibility. Requires a person who alleges that the website of a bank, trust company, savings institution, or credit union does not comply with applicable law regarding its accessibility by the vision impaired or hearing impaired to provide such entity with notice of the alleged violation at least 120 days prior to filing a civil cause of action. If the entity cures the defect within the 120 days, then the court shall dismiss the action. The bill also requires the court to dismiss a cause of action filed after the defendant has cured the defect and award reasonable costs and attorney fees to the defendant.

Rights of persons with disabilities; procedures for certain actions, website accessibility.

Sen. George Barker [D]

2019-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N 2-A) (Y: 8 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-30	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N 2-A)
2019-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute printed to LIS only 19105500D-S1
2019-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104075D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
51	5	46.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1302
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1302+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1302S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03V0183+SB1302