Virginia Senate Bill 1337 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 5 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-03-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0103)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Venue in civil cases; conduct of business activity; change of venue. Provides that Category B venue exists where a defendant that is not an individual has its principal office or principal place of business. Currently, Category B venue exists where the president or other chief officer of a defendant that is a corporation resides. The bill also provides that Category B venue exists where a defendant regularly conducts substantial business activity or where such activity was conducted before the defendant's withdrawal from the Commonwealth provided there exists any practical nexus to the forum. There is no current requirement for such a practical nexus.

Civil cases; conduct of business activity, permissible venue.

Sen. Thomas Norment [R]

2013-02-14 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 102 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-11 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 0-N) (Y: 18 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) (Y: 36 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-05		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0103)
2013-03-05		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 103 (effective 7/1/13)
2013-02-20	Senate	Signed by President
2013-02-19	House	Signed by Speaker
2013-02-19	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1337ER)
2013-02-19	Senate	Enrolled
2013-02-14	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2013-02-14	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2013-02-14	House	Read third time
2013-02-13	House	Read second time
2013-02-11	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 0-N)
2013-02-11	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2013-02-11	House	Read first time
2013-02-11	House	Placed on Calendar
2013-02-05	Senate	Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N)
2013-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2013-02-05	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1337S1
2013-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 13104554D-S1
2013-02-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2013-02-05	Senate	Read second time
2013-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2013-02-04	Senate	Committee substitute printed 13104554D-S1
2013-02-04	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
2013-01-18	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2013-01-18	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 13103904D

HB1618 (Same As) 2013-03-05 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071)

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+SB1337
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB1337+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB1337S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB1337ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+CHAP0103+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+S03V0177+SB1337
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0375SB1337+SB1337
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0379SB1337+SB1337
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+SV0389SB1337+SB1337
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+H08V0339+SB1337
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+HV0903+SB1337