Virginia Senate Bill 473 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 31 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-31 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Foreign judgments. Replaces the Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act enacted in Virginia in 1990 with the version approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2005, which has been adopted in 18 states and the District of Columbia. Both versions provide for recognition and enforcement of foreign-country judgments in a United States state court. Judgments on taxes, fines, or criminal-like penalties and judgments relating to domestic relations are not covered by the Act. The Act provides that a foreign-country judgment will not be recognized if it comes from a court system that is not impartial or that dishonors due process, or when there is no personal jurisdiction over the defendant or over the subject matter of the litigation. The 2005 Act clarifies that a judgment entitled to full faith and credit under the United States Constitution is not enforceable under this Act and expressly provides that a party seeking recognition of a foreign-country judgment has the burden to prove that the judgment is subject to the Uniform Act. The Act imposes the burden of proof for establishing a specific ground for nonrecognition upon the party raising it, addresses the specific procedure for seeking enforcement, and provides a statute of limitations on enforcement of a foreign-country judgment.

Foreign judgments; Uniform Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act.

Sen. Mark Obenshain [R]

2014-02-28 - Senate - Senate: House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) (Y: 39 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-26 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 102 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-21 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-17 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-21 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-20 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-31		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0462)
2014-03-31		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 462 (effective 7/1/14)
2014-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2014-03-05	House	Signed by Speaker
2014-03-05	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB473ER)
2014-03-05	Senate	Enrolled
2014-02-28	Senate	House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N)
2014-02-26	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2014-02-26	House	Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2014-02-26	House	Engrossed by House as amended
2014-02-26	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2014-02-26	House	Read third time
2014-02-25	House	Read second time
2014-02-21	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (21-Y 0-N)
2014-02-17	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
2014-02-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2014-01-27	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-27	House	Read first time
2014-01-27	House	Placed on Calendar
2014-01-23	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2014-01-22	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2014-01-21	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2014-01-20	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2014-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101751D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	465.13	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	465.13:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	465.13:11	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	465.23	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	465.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB473
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB473+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB473ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0462+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S03V0067+SB0473
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0117SB0473+SB0473
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0139SB0473+SB0473
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H0802V0137+SB0473
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H08V0344+SB0473
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV1070+SB0473
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0660SB0473+SB0473