Virginia Senate Bill 5082 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Passed on October 13 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-10-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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.

Hospices, certain, home care organizations, etc.; immunity from civil liability, COVID-19.

Sen. Dave Marsden [D]

Sen. Thomas Norment [R]

Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant [R]

2020-09-25 - House - House: VOTE: Passage Emergency (87-Y 9-N 1-A) (Y: 87 N: 9 NV: 2 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-09-22 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 3-N) (Y: 17 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-09-03 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-08-28 - Senate - Senate: Committee substitute reconsidered reconsidered (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-08-28 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Passed by for the day agreed to (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-08-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-10-13		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007)
2020-10-13		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 7 (effective 10/13/20)
2020-10-07		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 14, 2020
2020-10-07	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on October 7, 2020
2020-10-02	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-10-02	Senate	Signed by President
2020-10-02	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB5082ER)
2020-10-02	House	Enrolled
2020-09-25	House	VOTE: Passage Emergency (87-Y 9-N 1-A)
2020-09-25	House	Passed House (87-Y 9-N)
2020-09-25	House	Read third time
2020-09-24	House	Read second time
2020-09-22	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 3-N)
2020-09-17	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-09-17	House	Read first time
2020-09-17	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-09-03	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
2020-09-02	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB5082S1
2020-09-02	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20201039D-S1
2020-08-28	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-08-28	Senate	Committee substitute reconsidered (37-Y 0-N)
2020-08-28	Senate	Reconsideration of Passed by for the day agreed to (37-Y 0-N)
2020-08-28	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-08-28	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20201039D-S1
2020-08-28	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-08-28	Senate	Read second time
2020-08-26	Senate	Read first time
2020-08-26	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20201039D-S1
2020-08-26	Senate	Incorporates SB5023 (Norment)
2020-08-26	Senate	Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2020-08-17	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-08-17	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200757D

SB5023 (Similar To) 2020-08-26 - Incorporated by Judiciary
HB5059 (Same As) 2020-10-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	225.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+SB5082
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+SB5082+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+SB5082S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+SB5082ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+CHAP0007+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+S03V0049+SB5082
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+SV0055SB5082+SB5082
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+SV0056SB5082+SB5082
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+SV0074SB5082+SB5082
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+H08V0037+SB5082
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+vot+HV0090+SB5082