Virginia Senate Bill 395 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-27 - Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Personal action for injury to person; malpractice against health care provider; failure to report diagnosis of cancer. Provides that where negligence for a delay in communicating to a patient the interpretation of an imaging or diagnostic test or study in a malpractice claim against a health care provider who ordered such test or study that was interpreted to reveal a diagnosis of a malignant tumor or cancer, the normal two-year statute of limitations is extended for a period of one year from the date the diagnosis of a malignant tumor or cancer is communicated to the patient by a health care provider.

Personal action for injury to person; malpractice against health care provider, failure to report.

Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

2014-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-27	Senate	Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2014-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14103321D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	243	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB395
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB395+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S03V0102+SB0395