Virginia Senate Bill 1446 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-06 - Left in Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners of medicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistance to treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistance includes providing a legal consult fee schedule upon request, scheduling and participating in meetings with a treated patient's attorney upon request, participating in trial or de bene esse depositions as needed, and providing a written estimate of the cost of the patient's medical services related to the litigation.

Medicine and other healing arts; practice, provision of litigation assistance.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2021-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2021-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 6-N 1-A) (Y: 8 N: 6 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-21 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-06	Senate	Left in Judiciary
2021-02-04	Senate	Recommitted to Judiciary
2021-02-04	Senate	Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
2021-02-03	Senate	Passed by for the day
2021-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
2021-02-01	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with amendment (8-Y 6-N 1-A)
2021-01-21	Senate	Rereferred to Judiciary
2021-01-21	Senate	Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
2021-01-19	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2021-01-19	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 21102383D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	401.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB1446
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1446+hil
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+amd+SB1446AS
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/21103867A.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB1446F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S04V0052+SB1446
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S03V0114+SB1446
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0257SB1446+SB1446