Virginia Senate Bill 791 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-05 - Continued to 2019 in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N)
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Immunity of employers and potential employers; reports of violent behavior. Provides civil immunity to an employer who makes a report to a potential employer or law-enforcement agency of violent or threatened violent behavior, as defined in the bill, by an employee or former employee, provided that such a report was made in good faith and with reasonable cause to make such report. The bill further provides immunity to a potential employer who receives such a report and takes reasonable action in good faith to respond to the violent or threatened violent behavior noted in such report. The bill further provides that the court shall award reasonable attorney fees and costs to any employer or potential employer who has a suit dismissed against him pursuant to the immunity provided to him.

Employers and potential employers; civil immunity, reports of violent behavior by an employee.

Sen. John Edwards [D]

2018-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2019 in Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N)
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-10	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 18104776D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	226.10:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB791
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB791+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S03V0273+SB0791