Virginia Senate Bill 563 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 2 2008 - 100% progression
Action: 2008-04-14 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813)

Cases held under advisement; time limit. Provides that whenever a judge of a circuit court holds a civil case under advisement for more than 90 days after final submission of the case, the court shall report, in writing, to the parties or their counsel an expected time of a decision. If such a judge (i) holds a civil case under advisement for more than 90 days, (ii) fails to make the required written report, or (iii) fails to render a decision within the expected time stated in the report, any party may notify the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Whenever the Chief Justice, or any justice designated by him, has reasonable cause to believe that any judge of a court of record may be holding a civil case under advisement for an unreasonable length of time, he shall inquire into the cause of the delay and shall, if necessary, designate a judge or retired judge of a court of record to assist the regular judge in the performance of his duties. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.

Civil cases; time limit for those held under advisement.

Sen. Mark Obenshain [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-04-14		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813)
2008-04-02		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 813 (effective 7/1/08)
2008-03-11		Senate: Signed by President
2008-03-08		House: Signed by Speaker
2008-03-08		Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB563ER)
2008-03-08		Senate: Enrolled
2008-03-05		House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
2008-03-05		House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
2008-03-05		House: Read third time
2008-03-04		House: Read second time
2008-02-29		House: Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N)
2008-02-14		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-02-14		House: Read first time
2008-02-14		House: Placed on Calendar
2008-02-12		Senate: Communicated to House
2008-02-12		Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
2008-02-12		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2008-02-12		Senate: Printed as engrossed 080207400-E
2008-02-12		Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB563E
2008-02-12		Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
2008-02-12		Senate: Reading of amendments waived
2008-02-12		Senate: Read second time
2008-02-12		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2008-02-11		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (10-Y 5-N)
2008-01-14		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
2008-01-09		Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-01-09		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 080207400

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?081+sum+SB563