The Virginia Courts of Justice Committee advanced 18 Senate bills, most without debate, while Senate Bill 229 on class actions in Virginia drew the hearing's only substantive floor remarks — a committee member voiced multiple legal objections before voting for the bill anyway, which passed 13 to 6.
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Richard C. 'Rip' Sullivan, Jr. argued on the record that the bill is 'not quite ready yet,' citing the absence of a summary judgment mechanism, concerns about per violation language, changes to the reliance element of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, and language not present in Federal Civil Procedure Rule 23. No named speaker directly rebutted his concerns. Sullivan ultimately voted for the bill, stating he knew where it was going and hoped stakeholders would keep talking about improving it.
“It is time for us to get class actions here in Virginia.”
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Sign in to subscribeCourts of justice will now come to order. Ask the clerk to open the roll for attendance. And members, please register your attendance by voting Aye. All right. All members have voted their attendance. Clerk will please close the roll. We have a quorum. We got today cognates and similar bills, and we got some instructions whether we're going to conform or not. What we'll do is we'll go through these relatively quickly. The Senate bills with identical House Companions. You should all have sort of a read along sheet here and I'll sort of walk through it. We can do the ones that are identical in House Companions that uncontested. We'll do those in a block. I'll read those. Senate Bill 82, patron is delegate or Senator Saleem. That's identical to House Bill 520, Senate Bill 144, Patron McDougall. This is identical to House Bill 124, Patron Rezor. Senate Bill 206, Suter Line. Senator Suer line. Bill's identical to House Bill 73, Delegate Cole. And Senate Bill 216, Patron Senator Boisko. This is identical to House Bill 1119, Patron, Delegate Navarre. We're going to vote those in a block unless anyone wants to pull any of those bills out…
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