Virginia Senate Bill 1619 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 21 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-21 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Spoliation of evidence. Establishes that a party or potential litigant has a duty to preserve evidence that may be relevant to reasonably foreseeable litigation. The bill further provides that a court (i) upon finding prejudice to another party from loss, disposal, alteration, concealment, or destruction of such evidence, may order measures no greater than necessary to cure the prejudice, or (ii) only upon finding that the party acted recklessly or with the intent to deprive another party of the evidence's use in the litigation, may (a) presume that the evidence was unfavorable to the party, (b) instruct the jury that it may or shall presume that the evidence was unfavorable to the party, or (c) dismiss the action or enter a default judgment. The bill further provides that no independent cause of action for negligent or intentional spoliation of evidence is created.

Evidence; establishes that a party or potential litigant has a duty to preserve.

Sen. Mark Obenshain [R]

2019-02-23 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N) (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-21 - Senate - Senate: House amendment rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N) (Y: 1 N: 39 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2019-02-20 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-18 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-11 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 1-N) (Y: 38 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-21		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732)
2019-03-21		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 732 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-03-11		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-03-11	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
2019-03-09	Senate	Signed by President
2019-03-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1619ER)
2019-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-23	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-23	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N)
2019-02-23	House	Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
2019-02-23	Senate	Conference substitute printed 19107523D-S1
2019-02-23		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2019-02-21	House	Delegates: Leftwich, Campbell, J.L., Bourne
2019-02-21	House	Conferees appointed by House
2019-02-21	Senate	Senators: Obenshain, Petersen, Stuart
2019-02-21	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2019-02-21	Senate	Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-21	House	House requested conference committee
2019-02-21	House	House insisted on amendment
2019-02-21	Senate	House amendment rejected by Senate (1-Y 39-N)
2019-02-20	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2019-02-20	House	Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2019-02-20	House	Engrossed by House as amended
2019-02-20	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2019-02-20	House	Read third time
2019-02-19	House	Read second time
2019-02-18	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (16-Y 0-N)
2019-02-11	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2019-02-08	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
2019-02-04	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-02-04	House	Read first time
2019-02-04	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-01-29	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-28	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2019-01-25	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 1-N)
2019-01-23	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2019-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102920D

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?191+sum+SB1619
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1619+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1619S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1619ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0732+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03V0127+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0196SB1619+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0221SB1619+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0802V0079+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H08V0366+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3135+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0946SB1619+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0998SB1619+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV1114SB1619+SB1619
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3350+SB1619