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HOUSE BILL NO. 314 Offered January 14, 2004 Prefiled January 9, 2004 A BILL to amend and reenact § 8.01-223 of the Code of Virginia, relating to privity of contract. ---------- Patron-- Wright ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8.01-223 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8.01-223. Lack of privity no defense in certain cases.

In cases not provided for in § 8.2-318 where recovery of damages for injury to person, including death, or to property resulting from negligence is sought, lack of privity between the parties shall be no defense. For purposes of this section, damages for injury to property shall include those costs necessary to restore or place the property in the same condition or status it would have occupied absent the alleged negligence.