VA HB5059 | 2020 | 1st Special Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Passed on October 13 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-10-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Passed on October 13 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-10-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Certain hospices, home care organizations, private providers, assisted living facilities, and adult day care centers; immunity from civil liability; COVID-19; emergency. Provides that a licensed hospice, home care organization, private provider, assisted living facility, or adult day care center that delivers care to or withholds care from a patient, resident, or person receiving services who is diagnosed as being or is believed to be infected with the COVID-19 virus shall not be liable for any injury or wrongful death of such patient, resident, or person receiving services arising from the delivery or withholding of care when the emergency and subsequent conditions caused by the emergency result in a lack of resources, attributable to the disaster, that render such hospice, home care organization, private provider, assisted living facility, or adult day care center unable to provide the level or manner of care that otherwise would have been required in the absence of the emergency and that resulted in the injury or wrongful death at issue. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Title
Hospices, certain, home care organizations, etc.; immunity from civil liability, COVID-19.
Sponsors
Del. Rodney Willett [D] | Del. Patrick Hope [D] | Del. Clinton Jenkins [D] | Del. Betsy Carr [D] |
Del. Kaye Kory [D] | Del. Alfonso Lopez [D] | Del. Kathleen Murphy [D] | Del. Kenneth Plum [D] |
Del. Vivian Watts [D] |
Roll Calls
2020-09-25 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-25 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-25 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-24 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-04 - House - House: VOTE: Passage Emergency (85-Y 13-N) (Y: 85 N: 13 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-08-26 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 1-N) (Y: 20 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-25 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-25 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-24 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-04 - House - House: VOTE: Passage Emergency (85-Y 13-N) (Y: 85 N: 13 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-08-26 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 1-N) (Y: 20 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
---|---|---|
2020-10-13 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) | |
2020-10-13 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 6 (effective 10/13/20) | |
2020-10-07 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 14, 2020 | |
2020-10-07 | House | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 7, 2020 |
2020-10-02 | Senate | Signed by President |
2020-10-02 | House | Signed by Speaker |
2020-10-02 | House | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5059ER) |
2020-10-02 | House | Enrolled |
2020-09-25 | Senate | Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
2020-09-25 | Senate | Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) |
2020-09-25 | Senate | Passed Senate (35-Y 0-N) |
2020-09-25 | Senate | Read third time |
2020-09-24 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) |
2020-09-16 | Senate | Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 0-N) |
2020-09-09 | Senate | Referred to Committee on the Judiciary |
2020-09-09 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed |
2020-09-04 | House | VOTE: Passage Emergency (85-Y 13-N) |
2020-09-04 | House | Read third time and passed House (85-Y 13-N) |
2020-09-03 | House | Read second time and engrossed |
2020-08-28 | House | Read first time |
2020-08-26 | House | Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 1-N) |
2020-08-18 | House | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
2020-08-18 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200737D |
Same As/Similar To
SB5082 (Same As) 2020-10-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007)