Virginia Subject | Civil Remedies and Procedure

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	SB532	Intro 25%	Commercial entity offering social media accounts; restricted hours for minors; civil liability. Provides that no commercial entity that offers social media accounts, as defined in the bill, shall knowingly or intentionally allow a minor to access his... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-12 Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VA	SB571	Intro 25%	Synthetic media; penalty. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic media, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to generate, create, or use or cause t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-12 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
VA	HB363	Intro 25%	Disqualification from office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; affidavit of eligibility for candidates for elective office; removal from office for current officeholders. Provides that any person who is fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-09 To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VA	SB493	Intro 25%	Medical malpractice; limitations on recovery; certain actions. 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, 2024, and occurred ag... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-08 Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (6-Y 9-N)
VA	HB369	Intro 25%	Institutions of higher education; sexual misconduct policies; civil penalty. Requires the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to appoint and convene a task force on combating sexual violence for the purpose of developing a base sexual misc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-02-01 To House Rules Committee
VA	SB278	Intro 25%	Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirmi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-31 To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
VA	SB587	Intro 25%	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]	2024-01-24 Incorporated by Courts of Justice
VA	HB182	Intro 25%	Breach of a contract; attorney fees; factors. Provides that, for any contract entered into on or after July 1, 2024, if such contract contains a provision allowing the award of attorney fees to a party when the other party to such contract breaches s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-15 Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
VA	HB153	Intro 25%	Department of Medical Assistance Services; lien for claim of personal injuries. Creates a process by which a lien in favor of the Department of Medical Assistance Services on a claim for personal injuries may be satisfied upon the request of the inju... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-01-15 Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)