CHAPTER NUMBER: 335
File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 245
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Boozer, Stone, Kelley, and
Collins
- Entitled:
-
Evidence - Civil Proceedings - Slayer's Rule - Admissibility and
Effect of Certain Criminal Convictions
Providing that a judgment of conviction establishing criminal
accountability for the felonious and intentional killing of a decedent
is admissible in a specified subsequent civil proceeding and
conclusively establishes that the convicted individual feloniously and
intentionally killed the decedent.
Senate Action
- 8/25
- Pre-filed
- 1/14
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 1/21
- Hearing 1/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/19
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/8
- Return Passed
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 335
House Action
- 3/20
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/6
- Favorable Report by Judiciary
- 4/1
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed (136-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator F. Vernon Boozer, District 9
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- ESTATES AND TRUSTS -see also- FIDUCIARIES
- EVIDENCE
- MURDER
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
10-919
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 748153/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 1998 at:
11:00 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 19, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- House
- April 2, 1998: Third Reading Passed (136-0)
