Virginia Senate Bill 694 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-11-30 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Bystander claims for intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death; emotional distress. Provides that a bystander who witnesses, live and in-person, an event during which the intentional or negligent infliction of injury to or death of a victim occurs may recover damages for resulting emotional distress, proven by a preponderance of the evidence, with or without a physical impact or physical injury to the bystander, if (i) the bystander is related to the victim or (ii) although not related to the victim, the bystander is in close proximity to the victim at the time the event occurs and is aware that such event is causing injury to or the death of the victim.

Intentional or negligent infliction of injury or death; bystander claims for emotional distress.

Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]

2018-01-17 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-11-30	Senate	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-17	Senate	Continued to 2019 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104408D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	42.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB694
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB694+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03C0055+SB0694