West Virginia Senate Bill 486 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-8)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-03-03 - Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading

The purpose of this bill is to establish a procedure that requires a claimant that files an asbestos case after the effective date of this bill to provide information to all defendants about all claims filed or anticipated to be filed by that claimant against asbestos bankruptcy trusts, a mechanism for the defendant to challenge those claims, a procedure for sanctions by the court, and for set-offs for those claims. This article is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

Creating Asbestos Claims Disclosure Act

Sen. Clark Barnes [R]	Sen. Donna Boley [R]	Sen. Richard Browning [D]	Sen. Donald Caruth [R]
Del. Frank Deem [R]	Sen. Douglas Facemire [D]	Sen. Karen Facemyer [R]	Sen. John Fanning [D]
Sen. Dan Foster [D]	Sen. Mike Green [D]	Sen. Jesse Guills [R]	Sen. Mike Hall [R]
Sen. Evan Jenkins [D]	Sen. Jeffrey Kessler [D]	Sen. William Laird [D]	Sen. Brooks McCabe [D]
Sen. Michael Oliverio [D]	Sen. Corey Palumbo [D]	Sen. Robert Plymale [D]	Sen. Roman Prezioso [D]
Sen. Ron Stollings [D]	Sen. Dave Sypolt [R]	Sen. Erik Wells [D]	Sen. Bob Williams [D]
Sen. Jack Yost [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-03		Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading
2010-03-03		Motion
2010-03-03		On 3rd reading
2010-03-02		Read 2nd time
2010-03-02		On 2nd reading
2010-03-01		Read 1st time
2010-03-01		On 1st reading
2010-03-01		Immediate consideration
2010-03-01		Revised committee sub reported
2010-02-26		Rereferred to Judiciary on 2nd reading
2010-02-26		On 2nd reading
2010-02-26		Read 1st time
2010-02-26		On 1st reading
2010-02-26		Immediate consideration
2010-02-26		Committee substitute reported
2010-02-05		To Judiciary
2010-02-05		To Judiciary
2010-02-05		Introduced in Senate
2010-02-05		To Judiciary
2010-02-05		Filed for introduction

HB4420 (Same As) 2010-02-10 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
55	7E	1	New Code	See Bill Text
55	7E	2	New Code	See Bill Text
55	7E	3	New Code	See Bill Text
55	7E	4	New Code	See Bill Text
55	7E	5	New Code	See Bill Text
55	7E	6	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=486&year=2010&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill