Fort Monroe Authority; civil actions in general district court.
Summary
Fort Monroe Authority; civil actions in general district court. Authorizes the Fort Monroe Authority to prepare, execute, file, and have served certain documents in a civil proceeding in general district court without the intervention of an attorney. This bill is identical to HB 1561.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 14, 2020
Signed Mar 6, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 6, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 19, 2020
How they voted
23–17
Passed
Total votes 40
Feb 6, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
89% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Mar 6, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 194 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 19, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 14, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 12, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 17-N)
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
upper
Jan 14, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Jan 14, 2020
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 20105350D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mamie Locke
DDemocratic
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