Virginia Senate Bill 1421 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 22 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Eminent domain; entry upon private property; calculation of just compensation; damages. Makes various changes to provisions related to entry upon private property in an eminent domain proceeding, including (i) requiring that the number of persons for whom permission to inspect the premises is sought be included in a request for permission to inspect private property for the purposes of a project wherein the power of eminent domain may be exercised; (ii) requiring the notice of intent to enter the property to include all of the information contained in the request for permission to inspect the property; (iii) requiring the court to award fees for up to three experts or as many experts as are called by the petitioner at trial, whichever is greater, if the petitioner damages the property during its entry; (iv) removing the requirement that the damage must be done maliciously, willfully, or recklessly for the owner to be reimbursed for his costs; and (v) removing the option that the owner may be reimbursed for his costs if the court awards the owner actual damages in an amount 30 percent or more greater than the petitioner's final written offer made no later than 30 days after the filing of an answer in circuit court or the return date in general district court.

Eminent domain; entry upon private property, calculation of just compensation, damages.

Sen. Mark Obenshain [R]

2019-02-21 - Senate - Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-20 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 2-N) (Y: 97 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-15 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (17-Y 0-N) (Y: 17 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-15 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-14 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-22		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)
2019-03-22		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 788 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-03-04		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-03-04	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
2019-02-23	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-23	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-23	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1421ER)
2019-02-23	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-21	Senate	House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2019-02-20	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 2-N)
2019-02-20	House	Passed House with amendments (97-Y 2-N)
2019-02-20	House	Engrossed by House as amended
2019-02-20	House	Committee amendments agreed to
2019-02-20	House	Read third time
2019-02-19	House	Read second time
2019-02-15	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (17-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
2019-02-08	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
2019-01-21	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-21	House	Read first time
2019-01-21	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-01-17	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-16	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2019-01-15	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-14	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
2019-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103612D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
25	1	203	(n/a)	See Bill Text
25	1	230	(n/a)	See Bill Text
25	1	230.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
25	1	312	(n/a)	See Bill Text
25	1	419	(n/a)	See Bill Text
33	2	1011	(n/a)	See Bill Text
33	2	1024	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1421
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1421+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1421ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0788+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03V0055+SB1421
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0023SB1421+SB1421
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0053SB1421+SB1421
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0802V0075+SB1421
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H08V0334+SB1421
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3152+SB1421
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0938SB1421+SB1421