Virginia Senate Bill 229 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 12 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-12 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Signature defects on pleadings, motions, and other papers. Clarifies that any pleading, motion, or other paper that is not properly signed is defective and voidable. The bill further provides that failure to timely raise signature defects waives any challenge based on such a defect and that a signature defect shall be cured within 21 days after it is brought to the attention of the pleader or movant, or the pleading, motion, or other paper that contains the signature defect shall be stricken.

Pleadings, motions, and other papers; signature defects.

Sen. John Petersen [D]

2020-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-12		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0351)
2020-03-12		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 351 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-10		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-10	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
2020-02-27	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-02-27	Senate	Signed by President
2020-02-27	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB229ER)
2020-02-27	Senate	Enrolled
2020-02-24	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2020-02-24	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2020-02-24	House	Read third time
2020-02-21	House	Read second time
2020-02-19	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N)
2020-02-18	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-02-18	House	Read first time
2020-02-18	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-10	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2020-02-07	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-02-05	Senate	Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-16	Senate	Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law
2020-01-08	Senate	Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
2020-01-01	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-01-01	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101534D

HB1378 (Same As) 2020-03-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	271.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB229
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB229+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB229ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0351+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0198+SB0229
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0410SB0229+SB0229
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0450SB0229+SB0229
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0451SB0229+SB0229
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H08V0341+SB0229
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1296+SB0229