Virginia Senate Bill 659 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-29 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (14-Y 1-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Contributory negligence; motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian, bicyclist, etc. Provides that the negligence of a pedestrian, bicyclist, or other person lawfully using a device other than a motor vehicle on a public highway who is involved in a collision with a motor vehicle shall not bar a plaintiff's recovery in any civil action unless the plaintiff's negligence is (i) a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury and (ii) greater than the aggregated total amount of negligence of all the defendants that proximately caused the plaintiff's injury.

Contributory negligence; motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian, bicyclist, etc.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2020-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-29	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (14-Y 1-N)
2020-01-24	Senate	Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101064D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	63.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB659
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB659+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S03V0119+SB0659