Virginia Senate Bill 587 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-01-24 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [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. Under current law, such order is permitted only where six or more plaintiffs have filed such actions. The bill further requires the Supreme Court of Virginia to promulgate rules no later than November 1, 2024, governing such actions. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, except that the provisions of the bill requiring the Supreme Court to promulgate rules are effective in due course.

Civil actions; filed on behalf of multiple persons.

Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]

2024-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Courts of Justice (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-24	Senate	Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2024-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103334D

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?241+sum+SB587
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB587+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB587F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S13V0056+SB0587