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HOUSE BILL NO. 309 Offered January 13, 2010 Prefiled January 11, 2010 A BILL to amend and reenact § 8.01-420 of the Code of Virginia, relating to summary judgment; documents that can serve as basis for motion. ---------- Patron-- O'Bannon ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 8.01-420 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 8.01-420. Depositions as basis for motion for summary judgment or to strike evidence.

No motion for summary judgment or to strike the evidence shall be sustained when based in whole or in part upon any discovery depositions under Rule 4:5, unless all parties to the suit or action shall agree that such deposition may be so used. A motion for summary judgment may be based, in whole or in part, upon pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, answers to requests for admissions, or affidavits filed in the suit or action.