Virginia Senate Bill 285 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-12-04 - Left in Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Bystander claims for intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death; emotional distress. Provides that a bystander who witnesses, live and in-person, an event during which the intentional or negligent infliction of injury to or death of a victim occurs may recover damages for resulting emotional distress, proven by a preponderance of the evidence, with or without a physical impact or physical injury to the bystander, if (i) the bystander is related to the victim or (ii) although not related to the victim, the bystander is in close proximity to the victim at the time the event occurs and is aware that such event is causing injury to or the death of the victim.

Intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death; bystander claims for emotional distress.

Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]

2020-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 in Judiciary (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-12-04	Senate	Left in Judiciary
2020-01-29	Senate	Continued to 2021 in Judiciary (12-Y 0-N)
2020-01-16	Senate	Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2020-01-03	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-01-03	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101719D

SB285 (Carry Over) 2020-01-29 - Continued to 2021 in Judiciary (12-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	42.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB285
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB285+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S03C0118+SB0285