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1995 SESSION
SB 800 Consumer Protection Act; civil penalties.
Introduced by: William C. Wampler, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Virginia Consumer Protection Act (VCPA). Amends the VCPA as follows: (i) increases the maximum civil penalty for engaging in a prohibited practice under the Act from $1,000 to $2,500 per violation and increases from $200 to $1,000 the maximum recovery for expenses incurred by the state or local agency investigating such violation; (ii) increases the minimum damage award in successful individual actions from $100 to $500; (iii) authorizes, for willful violations, an award of three times the actual damages or $1,000, whichever is greater, and an award of attorney's fees and court costs; (iv) empowers the Attorney General to issue civil investigative demands; (v) exempts from the Act's provisions mortgage lenders and broker-dealers otherwise regulated and supervised, and real estate licensees; and (vi) establishes a two-year statute of limitations for individual actions. The bill also contains technical amendments.
FULL TEXT
- 01/18/95 Senate: Presented & ordered printed LD8478843 pdf
- 02/02/95 Senate: Committee substitute printed LD3684701-S1 pdf
- 02/16/95 House: Committee substitute printed LD8173320-H1 pdf
- 03/06/95 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB800ER) pdf
- 04/03/95 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/18/95 Senate: Presented & ordered printed LD8478843
- 01/18/95 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/01/95 Senate: Reported from General Laws with sub. (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/95 Senate: Committee substitute printed LD3684701-S1
- 02/02/95 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/95 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/95 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/02/95 Senate: Reconsideration of passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/95 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/95 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/03/95 Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/95 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/03/95 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to LD3684701-S1
- 02/03/95 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. LD3684701-S1
- 02/03/95 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/95 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/95 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/95 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/95 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/06/95 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/95 House: Read first time
- 02/07/95 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 02/16/95 House: Reported from C. I. B. w/sub. (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/95 House: Committee substitute printed LD8173320-H1
- 02/17/95 House: Read second time
- 02/20/95 House: Read third time
- 02/20/95 House: Committee substitute agreed to LD8173320-H1
- 02/20/95 House: Floor amendment agreed to (Keating)
- 02/20/95 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/21/95 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/22/95 House: Read third time
- 02/22/95 House: Motion for pending question agreed to
- 02/22/95 House: Floor amendments agreed to (Morgan) (60-Y 38-N)
- 02/22/95 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (60-Y 38-N)
- 02/22/95 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. w/amds. LD8173320-H1
- 02/22/95 House: Passed House with sub. with amendments (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/22/95 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/23/95 Senate: Reading of substitute with amendments waived
- 02/23/95 Senate: House sub. w/amds. agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/95 Senate: VOTE: CONCUR HOUSE AMENDMENT (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/95 Senate: Title replaced
- 03/06/95 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB800ER)
- 03/13/95 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/13/95 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/14/95 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/28/95 House: Bill became law, Chapter 703 (effective 7/1/95)
- 04/03/95 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0703)