Bill Text: VA HB2476 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public officers; death, resignation, or ceasing to hold office, automatic substitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2025-02-20 - Senate Amendment agreed to by House (92-Y 1-N) [HB2476 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2025-HB2476-Introduced.html
2025 SESSION
INTRODUCED
25102764D
HOUSE BILL NO. 2476
Offered January 8, 2025
Prefiled January 8, 2025
A BILL to amend and reenact § 8.01-18 of the Code of Virginia, relating to public officers; death, resignation, or ceasing to hold office; automatic substitution.
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Patron—Henson
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Committee Referral Pending
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8.01-18 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 8.01-18. When suit dismissed unless revived.
A. If the committee, personal representative, heir, or devisee of the plaintiff or appellant who was a party, or of the decedent whose personal representative was plaintiff or appellant, shall does not make a motion for substitution of parties under the applicable Rules of Court within a reasonable time after there may have been a suggestion on the record of the fact making such motion proper, the suit of such plaintiff or appellant shall be discontinued dismissed, unless good cause be is shown to the contrary.
B. The provisions of this section shall not apply when a public officer who is a party in an official capacity dies, resigns, or otherwise ceases to hold office while an action is pending. In any such instance, such public officer's successor shall be automatically substituted as a party.
