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2024 SESSION

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SB 138 Permissible venue; personal injury and wrongful death actions, appointment of administrator.

Introduced by: Jennifer D. Carroll Foy | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Permissible venue; personal injury and wrongful death actions; appointment of administrator on behalf of estate of decedent. Provides that in a personal injury or wrongful death action in which an administrator is appointed on behalf of the estate of a decedent, permissible venue shall lie only in a county or city in which venue would have been properly laid if the person for whom such appointment is made had survived. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference and is identical to HB 779.

FULL TEXT

• 01/05/24  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101470D  pdf
• 02/26/24  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB138ER)  pdf
• 04/02/24  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340)  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/05/24  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101470D
• 01/05/24  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/10/24  Senate: Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 02/05/24  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/06/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/07/24  Senate: Read second time and engrossed
• 02/07/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/07/24  Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/13/24  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/13/24  House: Read first time
• 02/13/24  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/16/24  House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/20/24  House: Read second time
• 02/21/24  House: Read third time
• 02/21/24  House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/21/24  House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/26/24  Senate: Enrolled
• 02/26/24  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB138ER)
• 02/26/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 02/28/24  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/11/24  Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
• 03/11/24  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
• 04/02/24  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 340 (effective 7/1/24)
• 04/02/24  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340)