| VA | HB2139 | Enroll | Accrual of cause of action; diagnosis of latent injury. Provides that a cause of action for a latent injury resulting from the exposure to a substance or the use of a product shall accrue when the person knew or should have known of the injury and it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2139ER) |
| VA | HB2193 | Engross | Settlement agreements; stay of dismissal. Provides that, in any case in which a plaintiff or counterclaim plaintiff is seeking a civil judgment against a defendant or counterclaim defendant, if the parties enter into a written settlement agreement, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Delegates: Leftwich, Heretick, Simon |
| VA | HB2175 | Enroll | 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] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1913 | Pass | Programs to address career fatigue and wellness in certain health care providers; civil immunity; emergency. Expands civil immunity for health care professionals serving as members of or consultants to entities that function primarily to review, eval...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 5 (effective 2/25/21) |
| VA | HB2099 | Engross | 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 pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Passed Senate with substitute with amendment (27-Y 12-N) |
| VA | HB2263 | Enroll | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2263ER) |
| VA | HB2169 | Enroll | 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] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2019 | Engross | 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] | 2021-02-24
VOTE: Adoption (86-Y 12-N) |
| VA | HB2190 | Engross | 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] | 2021-02-23
VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2073 | Engross | 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] | 2021-02-17
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (15-Y 0-N) |
| 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 it is unlawful for his employer to discharge him from employment or take any adverse perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB1757 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1779 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2169 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2190 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2263 | Engross
Sine Die | Abolition of the death penalty. Abolishes the death penalty, including for those persons currently under a death sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1897 | Engross
Sine Die | Summons for unlawful detainer; notice; adverse employment actions prohibited. Requires any summons for unlawful detainer to include a notice to the tenant that it is unlawful for his employer to discharge him from employment or take any adverse perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1913 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2045 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2019 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2073 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2099 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2139 | Engross
Sine Die | 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, product, or circumstance is f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2112 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2193 | Engross
Sine Die | Settlement agreements; stay of dismissal. Provides that, in any case in which a plaintiff or counterclaim plaintiff is seeking a civil judgment against a defendant or counterclaim defendant, if the parties enter into a written settlement agreement, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2175 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB712 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB76 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB610 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB673 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB1649 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 |
