Virginia Senate Bill 753 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-11-30 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Standards for testimony of expert witnesses. Adopts two additional standards for admission of expert testimony found in Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence by (i) requiring that the expert's testimony be the product of reliable principles and methods and (ii) requiring that the expert has reliably applied the principles and methods to the facts of the case. The bill also codifies the requirement that the expert's testimony be based on sufficient facts or data (as recognized in Forbes v. Rapp, 269 Va. 374, 611 S.E.2d 592 (2005)). The bill does not change the current requirement that the expert's scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact in understanding the evidence or determining a fact in issue.

Expert witnesses; standards for testimony.

Sen. Mark Peake [R]

2018-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-11-30	Senate	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-17	Senate	Continued to 2019 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100628D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	401.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB753
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB753+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03C0058+SB0753