General district courts; jurisdictional limits.
Summary
General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for civil actions for personal injury and wrongful death. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Mar 2021
Introduced Dec 2, 2020
Signed Mar 18, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 1, 2021 · House of Delegates Feb 22, 2021
How they voted
29–4
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 1, 2021
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
75% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
39
Key actions
11
Committee
12
Amendments
2
Mar 18, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 199 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 23, 2021
Introduced
House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
upper
Feb 22, 2021
Lower · Passed
Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 22, 2021
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended
lower
Feb 22, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Feb 17, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 12, 2021
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
lower
Feb 11, 2021
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Civil
lower
Feb 5, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Feb 1, 2021
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N)
upper
Jan 29, 2021
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1108S2
upper
Jan 29, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 21103882D-S2
upper
Jan 27, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
upper
Jan 18, 2021
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Jan 18, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 1-N)
upper
Jan 18, 2021
Upper · Passed
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Dec 2, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Dec 2, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100842D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Bill Stanley
RRepublican
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