VA SB892 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on January 20 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-21 - Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 20 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-21 - Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Medical malpractice; certification of expert witness; written opinion. Provides that at the time of service of process of every complaint, counter claim, third party claim, or warrant in debt in a medical malpractice action or everycomplaint, counter claim, or third party claim in an action for wrongful death against a health care provider, the plaintiff shall be deemed to have obtained a written opinion signed by an expert witness stating that the defendant in the action deviated from the applicable standard of care and the deviation was a proximate cause of the injuries claimed. The bill provides that a plaintiff may have separate certifications for standard of care and causation. The bill also requires a plaintiff to certify to the defendant upon whom service of process has been requested to certify within 21 days of the defendant's answer being filed that such plaintiff obtained the necessary expert opinion at the time service was requested or affirming that such plaintiff did not need to obtain a certifying expert witness opinion in accordance with relevant law.
Title
Medical malpractice; certification of expert witness, written opinion.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-01-21 - Senate - Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-17 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-15 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-17 - Senate - Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-15 - Senate - Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-21 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Reading of substitute waived |
| 2025-01-20 | Senate | Read second time |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Passed by for the day |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-17 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2025-01-15 | Senate | Committee substitute printed 25105058D-S1 |
| 2025-01-15 | Senate | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-04 | Senate | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2025-01-04 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102120D |
