| VA | SB1122 | Engross | Habitual offenders; repeal. Repeals the remaining provisions of the Habitual Offender Act. The bill also requires that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles reinstate a person's privilege to drive a motor vehicle that was suspended or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1897 | Engross | Summons for unlawful detainer; notice; adverse employment actions prohibited. Requires any summons for unlawful detainer to include a notice to the tenant that he shall not be discharged from employment, or have any adverse personnel action taken aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Printed as engrossed 21102187D-E |
| VA | SB1202 | Engross | Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company denies, refuses, or fails to pay its insured, or refuses a reasonable settlement demand within the policy's coverage limits, for a claim for unin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB2073 | Intro | Wrongful death statute of limitations; criminal investigations by law enforcement. Provides that, in a civil action for the wrongful death of an injured person, such an action may be brought by a personal representative of a decedent within two years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1913 | Intro | Programs to address career fatigue and wellness in certain health care providers; civil immunity. Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, evaluate, or ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Read first time |
| VA | HB2019 | Intro | Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated stock albuterol inhalers and valved holding chambers. Requires each local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 25]
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) |
| VA | SB1205 | Intro | Programs to address career fatigue and wellness in certain health care providers; civil immunity. Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, evaluate, or ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2139 | Intro | Accrual of cause of action; diagnosis of latent injury or disease. Provides that a cause of action for a latent injury shall accrue when such injury and its causal connection to an injurious or disease-causing substance is first communicated to the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB2169 | Intro | Solicitation of prostitution; reorganization. Reorganizes the statute penalizing prostitution into two distinct sections. The penalties for all offenses remain unchanged. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1322 | Intro | Public schools; seizure management and action plans; biennial training. Provides for the submission and utilization of seizure management and action plans for students with a seizure disorder. The bill requires that school nurses and certain school d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2190 | Intro | Wrongful death beneficiaries. Provides that an award in a wrongful death action, where there is no surviving spouse of the decedent, children of the decedent, or children of a deceased child of the decedent, shall be distributed to the parents, broth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2099 | Intro | Limitations on enforcement of judgments; judgment liens; settlement agents. Reduces from 20 years to 10 years from the date of a judgment the period of time within which an execution may be issued or action may be taken on such judgment. The bill fur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1446 | Intro | Practice of medicine and other healing arts; provision of litigation assistance. Requires practitioners of medicine and other healing arts to provide litigation assistance to treated patients and their attorneys. Such litigation assistance includes p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB1241 | Engross | Personal injury claim; disclosure of insurance policy limits. Provides that in a civil action for personal injuries sustained from a motor vehicle accident, regardless of the amount of losses sustained by an injured person, an insurance company shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1203 | Intro | Hate crimes; associational relationships; penalty. Redefines the categories of victims whose intentional selection for a hate crime involving assault, assault and battery, or trespass for the purpose of damaging another's property results in a higher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-20
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 5-N) |
| VA | SB1454 | Intro | Evidence of mental competence; medical scans of brain. Provides that in any proceeding where mental competence or mental impairment is at issue, the court shall accept a properly authenticated computed tomography (CT) scan, computerized axial tomogra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 25 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB2193 | Intro | Settlement agreements; indication of contingent dismissal. Provides that, in any case in which a creditor is seeking a money judgment against a debtor, if the parties indicate that they have entered into a written settlement agreement, the court shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-19
To House Courts: Civil Committee |
| VA | SB1108 | Intro | General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-18
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1165 | Intro | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-18
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1440 | Intro | Civil action for unlawful acts of force or failure to intervene by a law-enforcement officer or correctional officer. Creates a civil action for the use of unlawful acts of force, including deadly force, or failure to intervene as required by law, by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB1179 | Intro | Corrections Private Management Act; name change; private management prohibited. Removes the authority of the Director of the Department of Corrections, pursuant to the Corrections Private Management Act (the Act), to enter into contracts with prison ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-15
Failed to report (defeated) in Rehabilitation and Social Services (3-Y 11-N) |
| VA | HB2263 | Intro | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | SB1371 | Intro | Safe haven protections; newborn safety device. Provides an affirmative defense in certain criminal prosecutions and civil proceedings regarding child abuse or neglect to a parent who safely delivers his child within the first 14 days of the child's l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB1407 | Intro | Regulating electronic gaming devices; penalties. Authorizes the manufacturing, distributing, operating, servicing, hosting, and playing of electronic gaming devices in the Commonwealth, to be regulated by the Virginia Lottery Board, which the bill re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-13
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB2045 | Intro | Civil action for deprivation of rights; duties and liabilities of certain employers in employing or contracting for the services of law-enforcement officers. Creates a civil action for the deprivation of a person's rights by a law-enforcement officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-12
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1340 | Intro | Statute of limitations to collect medical debt. Provides that the statute of limitations for an action on any contract, written or unwritten, to collect medical debt, including actions brought by the Commonwealth, is three years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB2112 | Intro | Court of Appeals; jurisdiction; number of judges. Expands the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of Virginia by providing for an appeal of right in every civil case and provides that the granting of further appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-12
Committee Referral Pending |
| VA | SB1327 | Intro | Housing Bill of Rights; housing protections; foreclosures; manufactured housing. Provides for various protections for homeowners and tenants of manufactured home parks, including (i) restricting the circumstances under which a court may order a perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-12
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB2175 | Intro | Housing Bill of Rights; housing protections; foreclosures; manufactured housing. Provides for various protections for homeowners and tenants of manufactured home parks, including (i) restricting the circumstances under which a court may order a perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-12
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB1261 | Intro | Court of Appeals; jurisdiction; number of judges. Expands the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of Virginia by providing for an appeal of right in every civil case and provides that the granting of further appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-12
[Hearing: Jan 25 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB1339 | Intro | Expungement and sealing of police and court records; Expungement and sealing of police and court records; Expungement Fee Fund created; protection of public record information; penalties. Establishes a process for the sealing of police and court reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB1180 | Intro | 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 multi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB1779 | Intro | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-29
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1757 | Intro | Firearm-free zones designated by the Commonwealth or a locality; waiver of sovereign immunity. Provides that if (i) the Commonwealth designates any property owned by it as a firearm-free zone or (ii) any locality designates such locality or any part ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-17
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB712 | Intro | Legal notices; online publications. Provides that where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement instead may be published in an online ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB285 | Intro | 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 vic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB1060 | Intro | Dismissal of action by court without prejudice. Provides that, for good cause shown or upon agreement of all parties, the court may dismiss an action without prejudice and the plaintiff may recommence such action within the original period of limitat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB76 | Intro | Statute of limitations on written contract; missing persons declared dead; executor. Provides that, for any action that would be barred by the five-year statute of limitations on a written contract, wherein a person who would be party to such action ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB420 | Engross | Public schools; seizure management and action plans; training. Provides for the submission and utilization of seizure management and action plans for students with a seizure disorder. The bill requires that school nurses and certain school division e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB610 | Engross | Limitations period; previously time-barred actions; sexual abuse; two-year time period to file. Creates a two-year time period, on or after July 1, 2020, but before July 1, 2022, within which persons previously time-barred from filing an action for i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB27 | Intro | Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance policies; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company denies, refuses, or fails to pay its insured, or refuses a reasonable settlement demand within the policy's coverage limits, for a claim for unin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | HB673 | Engross | Cruelty to children; penalty. Increases the penalty from a Class 6 felony to a Class 4 felony for any person employing or having custody of a child to willfully cause or permit such child to be tortured physically or psychologically, tormented, mutil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB699 | Intro | Juries; fine for failure to respond to questionnaire. Permits a court to fine a person no more than $200 for failure to respond to a request from a jury commissioner or clerk of court containing questions to ascertain such person's eligibility to ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB449 | Intro | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | SB641 | Intro | Civil action; sale of personal data. Requires a person that disseminates, obtains, maintains, or collects personal data about a consumer for a fee to implement security practices to protect the confidentiality of a consumer's personal data, obtain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB1649 | Intro | Health care; decision making; end of life; penalties. Health care; decision making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal condition to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB127 | Intro | 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 vic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1033 | Intro | Juvenile community correctional centers and facilities; establishment; placement of juveniles. Changes the term "juvenile correctional centers and facilities" to "juvenile community correctional centers and facilities." The bill further provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1107 | Intro | Medical malpractice; limitation on recovery. Eliminates the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice where the act or acts of malpractice occurred on or after July 1, 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
