Real estate licensees; signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers. (HB259)
Introduced By
Del. Jackson Miller (R-Manassas)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Signing of pleadings, motions, and other papers; real estate licensees. Proscribes an individual from alleging a real estate licensee has engaged in untrue, deceptive, or misleading advertising unless such licensee has been convicted doing so. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Passed
History
Date | Action |
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12/30/2013 | Committee |
12/30/2013 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101965D |
12/30/2013 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
01/10/2014 | Assigned Courts sub: Civil |
02/03/2014 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N) |
02/07/2014 | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/07/2014 | Committee substitute printed 14104487D-H1 |
02/08/2014 | Read first time |
02/10/2014 | Read second time |
02/10/2014 | Committee substitute agreed to 14104487D-H1 |
02/10/2014 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB259H1 |
02/11/2014 | Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) |
02/11/2014 | VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/12/2014 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/12/2014 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
02/19/2014 | Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) (see vote tally) |
02/21/2014 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
02/24/2014 | Read third time |
02/24/2014 | Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) |
02/26/2014 | Enrolled |
02/26/2014 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB259ER) |
02/26/2014 | Signed by Speaker |
02/28/2014 | Signed by President |
04/06/2014 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 650 (effective 7/1/14) |
04/06/2014 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650) |
Comments
This seems weird. Isn't that libel/slander, something to be handled as a civil matter, rather than as a criminal matter?
Agreed. This is an odd bill, and another example of why I wish each bill had an attached rationale for its submission. I'd love to know what the precursor to this was and who's sponsoring it.
Why are you surprised, Mr. Duncan? There has always been a certain Alice in Wonderland aspect to the General Assembly. I remember one year when a Delegate sponsored a bill that would have amended the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in a fashion that would have made Virginia the only place in the universe (except maybe in the world of quantum physics?) where 1+1=1.