Virginia Senate Bill 1413 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Passed on March 16 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-16 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Immunity of persons; defamation; statements regarding matters of public concern communicated to a third party; statements made at a public hearing. Adds defamation to the causes of action from which a citizen shall be immune when making statements (i) regarding matters of public concern to a third party or (ii) at a public hearing before the governing body of any locality or other political subdivision, or the boards, commissions, agencies, and authorities thereof, and other governing bodies of any local governmental entity. The bill further provides that the immunity does not apply to any statements made with actual or constructive knowledge that they are false, or with reckless disregard for whether they are false. This bill is identical to HB 1941.

Immunity of persons; statements regarding matters of public concern communicated to a third party.

Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

2017-02-25 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N) (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-23 - Senate - Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 38-N) (Y: 2 N: 38 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2017-02-22 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (77-Y 20-N) (Y: 77 N: 20 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-20 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 4-N) (Y: 17 N: 4 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-13 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 1-N) (Y: 8 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) (Y: 38 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-01 - 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
2017-03-16		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0597)
2017-03-16		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 597 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
2017-03-13	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
2017-03-10	Senate	Signed by President
2017-03-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1413ER)
2017-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2017-02-25	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N)
2017-02-25	House	Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
2017-02-25	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-25	Senate	Conference substitute printed 17105897D-S2
2017-02-25		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2017-02-23	House	Delegates: Kilgore, Minchew, Bell, John J.
2017-02-23	House	Conferees appointed by House
2017-02-23	Senate	Senators: Obenshain, Petersen, Sturtevant
2017-02-23	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2017-02-23	Senate	Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-23	House	House requested conference committee
2017-02-23	House	House insisted on substitute
2017-02-23	Senate	House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 38-N)
2017-02-22	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (77-Y 20-N)
2017-02-22	House	Passed House with substitute (77-Y 20-N)
2017-02-22	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1413H1
2017-02-22	House	Committee substitute agreed to 17105470D-H1
2017-02-22	House	Read third time
2017-02-21	House	Read second time
2017-02-20	House	Committee substitute printed 17105470D-H1
2017-02-20	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 4-N)
2017-02-13	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 1-N)
2017-02-09	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2017-02-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-02-09	House	Read first time
2017-02-09	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-02-07	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
2017-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1413S1
2017-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 17105092D-S1
2017-02-06	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2017-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2017-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-01	Senate	Committee substitute printed 17105092D-S1
2017-02-01	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
2017-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2017-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103698D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	223.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1413
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1413+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1413S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1413H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1413S2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1413ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0597+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S03V0180+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0293SB1413+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0372SB1413+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H0802V0083+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H08V0305+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2690+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0931SB1413+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0953SB1413+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV1065SB1413+SB1413
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2828+SB1413