republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-2139.md

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Bill	Accrual of cause of action; diagnosis of latent injury.	Accrual of cause of action; diagnosis of latent injury or disease. Provides that a cause of action for a latent injury shall accrue when such injury and its causal connection to an injurious or disease-causing substance, product, or circumstance is first communicated to the injured person or his agent by a physician. The bill further provides that a diagnosis of a nonmalignant substance-related, product-related, or circumstance-related latent injury or disease shall not accrue an action based upon the subsequent diagnosis of a malignant substance-related latent injury or disease.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 2139	Virginia HB 2139 (2021)	bill		enacted	Elizabeth R. Guzman	5	39	9	2021-01-12	2021-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/7c6661db-12c9-4223-b66c-fce3306ed71c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2139	57871f1e0eb2e2af1c00d98dcb050a4cd2c688eb650e0714f7b8bb7415003780	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2139 (2021) — Accrual of cause of action; diagnosis of latent injury.

Accrual of cause of action; diagnosis of latent injury or disease. Provides that a cause of action for a latent injury shall accrue when such injury and its causal connection to an injurious or disease-causing substance, product, or circumstance is first communicated to the injured person or his agent by a physician. The bill further provides that a diagnosis of a nonmalignant substance-related, product-related, or circumstance-related latent injury or disease shall not accrue an action based upon the subsequent diagnosis of a malignant substance-related latent injury or disease.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. CHAP0195 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21200305D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB2139ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102437D (committee substitute) — source
5. Printed as engrossed 21102437D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 4-N) — 10–4 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (30-Y 8-N) — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Elizabeth R. Guzman — primary (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
• Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102437D introduction
• 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2021-01-21 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2021-01-22 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
• 2021-01-27 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-27 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-27 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-29 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2021-01-29 Engrossed by House as amended HB2139E
• 2021-01-29 Printed as engrossed 21102437D-E
• 2021-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-10 Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (13-Y 2-N)
• 2021-02-15 Reconsidered by Judiciary
• 2021-02-15 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-17 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-17 Committee substitute printed 21200305D-S1 substitution
• 2021-02-17 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 4-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-22 Reading of substitute waived
• 2021-02-22 Committee substitute agreed to 21200305D-S1
• 2021-02-22 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2139S1
• 2021-02-22 Passed Senate with substitute (30-Y 8-N) passage
• 2021-02-23 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-23 Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200305D-S1 (95-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-23 VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-25 Enrolled
• 2021-02-25 Signed by President
• 2021-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
• 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 195 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c6661db-12c9-4223-b66c-fce3306ed71c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).