File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 770
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators
Stone, Miller, Colburn, Ferguson, Forehand, Green,
Kelley, and Middlebrooks
- Entitled:
-
Wrongful Death -
Damages
Establishing that a beneficiary may be entitled to noneconomic damages
in a wrongful death action for the death of a child or specified
parents of a child who is not a minor child; revoking specified
conditions required to entitle specified beneficiaries to noneconomic
damages in a wrongful death action; altering the method by which a
court is required to allocate noneconomic damages in a wrongful death
action in which there are two or more claimants or beneficiaries if
the jury awards an amount that exceeds the statutory limit; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/15
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 1/22
- Hearing 2/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/6
- Third Reading Passed (44-0)
- 4/4
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- 4/6
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/22
- Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed
House Action
- 3/7
- First Reading Judiciary
- 3/18
- Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/27
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 3/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Arnick) Adopted (77-45)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/27
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-1)
- 3/31
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Menes, Valderrama, Hutchins
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Crime Victims' Rights Laws, T. F. to Examine Maryl
- Senator Timothy R. Ferguson, District 4
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator C. Edward Middlebrooks, District 32
- Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., District 27
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- DAMAGES
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- PATERNITY
- WRONGFUL DEATH
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
3-904 ,
5-201 ,
11-108
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 268044/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 4, 1997 at: 10:24
Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 292598/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 27, 1997 at: 10:42
Status: Adopted
- Number: 681480/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 27, 1997 at: 10:41
Status: Adopted