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1999 SESSION

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SB 823 Claims; Finn, Michele P., John and relatives of Hugh Finn.

Introduced by: Richard L. Saslaw | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Claims; Finn, Michele, John Finn and other relatives of Hugh Finn; health care decision educational program. Provides for the payment of $48,000 to Michele Finn and of $10,000 to John Finn on behalf of other relatives of Hugh Finn to reimburse them for costs incurred in court actions related to her actions as guardian of her late husband, Hugh Finn. Mr. Finn suffered brain damage in an automobile accident in 1995. In 1998, he was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state and having no reasonable possibility of recovery. When Mrs. Finn made plans to withdraw the feeding tube that was sustaining him, relatives of Mr. Finn sued unsuccessfully to overturn her decision. The Commonwealth instituted suit to block the removal of the feeding tube. The measure also requires the Virginia State Bar to implement a program of educating the bar and the public about health care decision planning.

FULL TEXT

• 01/13/99  Senate: Presented & ordered printed 990731729  pdf
• 02/03/99  Senate: Committee substitute printed 999596747-S1  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/13/99  Senate: Presented & ordered printed 990731729
• 01/13/99  Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance
• 02/03/99  Senate: Committee substitute printed 999596747-S1
• 02/03/99  Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (16-Y 1-N)
• 02/04/99  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/04/99  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/05/99  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 02/08/99  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 02/09/99  Senate: Read second time
• 02/09/99  Senate: Passed by temporarily
• 02/09/99  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/09/99  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 999596747-S1
• 02/09/99  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 999596747-S1
• 02/09/99  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/09/99  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/09/99  Senate: Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N)
• 02/09/99  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (34-Y 6-N)
• 02/09/99  Senate: Communicated to House
• 02/12/99  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/15/99  House: Read first time
• 02/15/99  House: Referred to Committee on Claims
• 02/17/99  House: Passed by indefinitely in Claims (8-Y 7-N)