Virginia House Bill 1336 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 8 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-03-10 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Spoliation of evidence; jury instruction. Provides that if a party has possession, custody, or control of evidence, as specified in the bill, that such party knows or reasonably should know may be material to pending or probable litigation, and such evidence is disposed of, altered, concealed, destroyed, or not preserved by such party, a court may instruct that a jury may infer that, if such evidence had been introduced, such evidence would be detrimental to the case of such party. The bill further provides that the party seeking such instruction need not show that the disposal of, alteration of, concealing of, or failure to preserve such evidence was undertaken intentionally or in bad faith in order for such instruction to be given. The bill serves to overrule a portion of the Supreme Court of Virginia's decision in Emerald Point, LLC v. Hawkins, 2017 Va. Lexis 197.

Spoliation of evidence; jury instruction.

Del. Gregory Habeeb [R]

2018-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Substitute by Senator Petersen rejected 18107938D-S2 (14-Y 26-N) (Y: 14 N: 26 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2018-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Pending question ordered (21-Y 19-N) (Y: 21 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 3-N) (Y: 12 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-09 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-05 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) (Y: 18 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-26 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) (Y: 6 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-10	Senate	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-03-05	Senate	Recommitted to Courts of Justice
2018-03-05	Senate	Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
2018-03-05	Senate	Substitute by Senator Petersen rejected 18107938D-S2 (14-Y 26-N)
2018-03-05	Senate	Pending question ordered (21-Y 19-N)
2018-03-05	Senate	Floor substitute printed 18107938D-S2 (Petersen)
2018-03-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2018-03-05	Senate	Committee substitute rejected 18107639D-S1
2018-03-05	Senate	Read third time
2018-03-02	Senate	Passed by for the day
2018-03-01	Senate	Passed by for the day
2018-02-28	Senate	Passed by for the day
2018-02-27	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-26	Senate	Committee substitute printed 18107639D-S1
2018-02-26	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 3-N)
2018-02-12	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-02-12	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2018-02-09	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2018-02-09	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2018-02-08	House	Read second time and engrossed
2018-02-07	House	Read first time
2018-02-05	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N)
2018-01-26	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
2018-01-18	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
2018-01-10	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-10	House	Presented and ordered printed 18104848D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	379.2:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1336
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1336+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1336S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1336S2+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0802V0065+HB1336
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H08V0103+HB1336
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV0481+HB1336
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S03V0367+HB1336
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0741HB1336+HB1336
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0891HB1336+HB1336
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0892HB1336+HB1336