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VASB256Enroll
75%
Motor vehicle insurance claims; bad faith. Provides that if an insurance company licensed in the Commonwealth to write motor vehicle insurance (i) denies, refuses, fails to pay, or fails to make a timely and reasonable settlement offer to its insured...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB364Enroll
75%
Elections; protection of electors and election officials; penalties. Adds to the list of protected voters any current or former elector for President and Vice President of the United States and any person who is or has been a member of the State Boar...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB629PassCivil immunity; dentists and dental hygienists; mental health treatment for health care professionals; reporting requirements. Adds dentists and dental hygienists to the list of providers who are immune from civil liability for any act done or made i...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 126 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB209PassAdoption; award of damages; death by wrongful act. Provides that, in a case for death by wrongful act, the child of a decedent who has been adopted after the death of such decedent shall be included in the class of beneficiaries entitled to an award ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 70 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB259VetoCivil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons; class actions. Provides that one or more members of a class may, as representative parties on behalf of all members, bring a civil action or may be proceeded against in a civil action, provided that ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VASB638PassExemptions from jury service upon request; age. Increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from jury service upon request.
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 72 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB7Enroll
75%
Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation beca...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB138Enroll
75%
Permissible venue; personal injury and wrongful death actions; appointment of administrator on behalf of estate of decedent. Provides that in a personal injury or wrongful death action in which an administrator is appointed on behalf of the estate of...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB215Enroll
75%
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; removal of Virginia residency requirement for access to certain criminal investigation files. Removes the requirement that persons to whom non-ongoing criminal investigation files shall otherwise be disclosed be c...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB157Enroll
75%
Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications; requirements. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisem...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB214Enroll
75%
Service of garnishment summons upon corporation, limited liability company, etc.; garnishment designee. Requires a summons for garnishment against a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, financial institution, or other entity a...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VASB280Engross
50%
Health care; decision-making; end of life; penalties. Allows an adult diagnosed with a terminal disease to request and an attending health care provider to prescribe a self-administered controlled substance for the purpose of ending the patient's lif...
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2024-03-04
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB86Intro
25%
Spoliation of evidence. Clarifies that, where evidence that should have been preserved in anticipation of litigation is lost, disposed of, altered, concealed, destroyed, or not preserved, and cannot be restored or replaced, no finding of intent that ...
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2024-02-12
Stricken at request of Patron in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
VASB571Intro
25%
Synthetic media; penalty. Expands the applicability of provisions related to defamation, slander, and libel to include synthetic media, defined in the bill. The bill makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to generate, create, or use or cause t...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
VASB532Intro
25%
Commercial entity offering social media accounts; restricted hours for minors; civil liability. Provides that no commercial entity that offers social media accounts, as defined in the bill, shall knowingly or intentionally allow a minor to access his...
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2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
VASB351Intro
25%
Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education and Health Committee
VASB493Intro
25%
Medical malpractice; limitations on recovery; certain actions. Eliminates the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice where the act or acts of malpractice occurred on or after July 1, 2024, and occurred ag...
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2024-02-08
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance and Appropriations (6-Y 9-N)
VASB716Engross
50%
Board of Medicine; unprofessional conduct. Prohibits the Board of Medicine from taking disciplinary action against a doctor based on the alleged provision or receipt of abortion care that is not prohibited under the laws of the Commonwealth, regardl...
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2024-02-06
Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
VASB278Intro
25%
Virginia Abortion Care and Virginia Abortion Care and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act; reproductive and gender-affirming health care services; prohibitions on extradition for certain crimes; civil penalties. Establishes the Virginia Abort...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
VASB120Intro
25%
Hate crimes and discrimination; ethnic animosity; penalties. Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination in employment and in places of public accommodation beca...
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2024-01-24
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
VASB587Intro
25%
Civil actions filed on behalf of multiple persons. Provides that a circuit court may enter an order joining, coordinating, consolidating, or transferring civil actions upon finding that separate civil actions brought by a plaintiff on behalf of multi...
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2024-01-24
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
VASB446Intro
25%
State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ...
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2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
VASB341Engross
50%
Common interest communities; foreclosure remedy. Prohibits certain bills to enforce a lien from being entertained if the real estate is the judgment debtor's primary residence and the judgment is for assessments levied by certain common interest comm...
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2024-01-23
Printed as engrossed 24105442D-ES1
VASB254Engross
50%
Optometrists; expert witness testimony. Allows an optometrist to testify as an expert witness in a court of law on certain matters within the scope of his practice.
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2024-01-18
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
VASB173Engross
50%
Adult day care centers; name change. Renames "adult day care centers" as "adult day centers" throughout the Code of Virginia.
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2024-01-17
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
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