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2004 SESSION
HB 705 Pleadings; notice to agent on amendment.
Introduced by: Riley E. Ingram | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Relation back; addition of agent. Authorizes amending a pleading to change the party against whom a claim is asserted so long as either the party or his agent had notice of the institution of the action within the limitations period. Under current law, amendments are permitted only where the party had notice of the institution of the action. Current law authorizing amendments to pleadings based on confusion in trade names contains the "agent" reference in that statute's requirements for actual notice of a claim. This bill is identical to SB 118.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/04 045908344 pdf
- 02/03/04 House: Committee substitute printed 040552344-H1 pdf
- 03/05/04 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB705ER) pdf
- 03/17/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/04 045908344
- 01/14/04 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/02/04 House: Reported from C. J. with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/04 House: Committee substitute printed 040552344-H1
- 02/04/04 House: Read first time
- 02/05/04 House: Read second time
- 02/05/04 House: Committee substitute agreed to 040552344-H1
- 02/05/04 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB705H1
- 02/06/04 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/04 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/04 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/09/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/04 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/18/04 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/20/04 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (36-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/23/04 Senate: Read third time
- 02/23/04 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/04 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/04 Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/04 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/04 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/04 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/04 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB705ER)
- 03/08/04 House: Enrolled
- 03/08/04 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/04 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/15/04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 141 (effective 7/1/04)
- 03/17/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0141)