Civil Remedies And Procedure
Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Firearm transactions; voluntary background checks, clarification of provisions. [SB-832]
Firearm transactions; voluntary background checks; clarification. Clarifies the provisions that apply to voluntary background checks performed at a firearms show by translating the Latin term of art mutatis mutandis into English.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bill DeSteph
Passed By Indefinitely In Courts Of Justice With Letter (14-y 1-n) on 01/18/2017
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Service of process; multifamily residential real estate and common interest communities. [SB-823]
Service of process; multifamily residential real estate and common interest communities. Requires an employee or agent of an owner of multifamily residential real estate or a common interest community to grant entry into such property to a person attempting to execute service on a person who resides in, occupies, or is known to be present in such property.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Wexton
Stricken At The Request Of Patron In Courts Of Justice (15-y 0-n) on 01/23/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Foreign business entities; services of summons for witness or subpoena duces tecum. [SB-814]
Services of summons for witness or subpoena duces tecum on foreign business entities. Allows the court to enforce compliance with a summons for witness or a subpoena duces tecum served on the registered agent of a foreign business entity registered with the State Corporation Commission to transact business in the Commonwealth, regardless of whether the foreign business entity is a party to the underlying case. This bill is in response to the Supreme Court of Virginia decision in Yelp, Inc. v. Hadeed Carpet Cleaning, Inc., Record No. 140242, 770
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Sponsored by: Sen. Scott Surovell
Failed To Report (defeated) In Courts Of Justice (4-y 8-n) on 01/16/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Medical records; fee limits and penalty for failure to provide. [HB-1130]
Requests for medical records; fee limits and penalty for failure to provide. Provides that when documents are requested or subpoenaed, the requester or subpoenaing party has the option of specifying that the documents are to be produced by the health care provider in hard copy or electronic format, and where a requester makes no specification, the documents are to be produced in electronic format. The bill imposes a maximum cost to the requester of medical records requested in electronic format. Current law does not set a maximum cost or deadline
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gregory Habeeb
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/01/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Taxicab services; regulation by localities, background checks. [SB-591]
Regulation of taxicab services by localities; background checks. Requires localities to adopt ordinances requiring that a criminal history background check be performed before an individual is authorized as a driver and at least once every two years thereafter. The background check shall require individuals to submit fingerprints and personal identifying information to be provided directly to the Central Criminal Records Exchange, which shall forward the results of the state and national records search to the local government or chief law-enforcement
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Obenshain
Left In Transportation on 12/02/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Medicaid nonemergency transportation providers; criminal history background checks. [HB-1021]
Medicaid nonemergency transportation providers; background checks. Requires every provider with whom the Department of Medical Assistance Services enters into a contract for the provision of nonemergency transportation services to individuals eligible for medical assistance to conduct national fingerprint-based criminal history background checks for every applicant hired for employment at the time of hiring and annually thereafter and establishes crimes conviction of which shall constitute a barrier to employment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Sickles
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 12/01/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Child care providers; criminal history background checks. [SB-601]
Child care providers; criminal history background checks. Child care providers; criminal history background checks.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Wexton
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 12/01/2016
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Child care providers; criminal history background checks. [HB-500]
Child care providers; criminal history background checks. Child care providers; criminal history background checks. Requires all applicants for licensure as a family day system, registration as a family day home, and approval as a family day home by a family day system, all child day centers that are exempt from licensure by the Department of Social Services, and all child day centers and family day homes that enter into a contract with the Department of Social Services or a local department of social services to provide child care services funded
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Sponsored by: Sen. Taylor Mason
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 12/01/2016