CHAPTER NUMBER: 489
File Code: Courts and Court Personnel - Statewide
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Turner and Montague
- Entitled:
-
Lawyers - Solicitation of Clients - Limited Prohibition on Targeted
Communications
Prohibiting a lawyer from sending targeted forms of communication
concerning an action for personal injury or wrongful death, directly
or through an agent, to prospective clients for 30 days after an
accident or disaster; providing for a penalty of not more than $1,000
or imprisonment for not more than 1 year or both; etc.
House Action
- 2/5
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/9
- Favorable Report by Judiciary
- 3/10
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/13
- Third Reading Passed (134-1)
- 4/9
- Return Passed
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 489
Senate Action
- 3/16
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 3/25
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/10
- Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/11
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- ATTORNEYS -see also- LEGAL AID; STATE'S ATTORNEYS
- COMMUNICATIONS -see also- LANGUAGE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- PENALTIES
- SOLICITATION
- WRONGFUL DEATH
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Business Occupations and Professions
- (
10-605.1 ,
10-606
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 13, 1998: Third Reading Passed (134-1)
- Senate
- April 11, 1998: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
