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Bill Legal duty; action for damages for legal malpractice concerning estate planning. Legal duty; action for damages for legal malpractice concerning estate planning; third parties to an attorney-client contract. Provides that an attorney does not owe a legal duty to a person other than the client for the purpose of the client's estate planning, including the provision of legal advice or the preparation of legal documents, unless the client and attorney enter into a signed, written agreement expressly allowing for such. The bill provides that its provisions are declarative of existing law. The bill also repeals the provisions under current law that specify the statute of limitations for legal malpractice actions relating to contracts for legal services concerning estate planning and the tolling of such statute of limitations. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference and is identical to SB 1115. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 2174 Virginia HB 2174 (2025)
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Virginia HB 2174 (2025) — Legal duty; action for damages for legal malpractice concerning estate planning.

Legal duty; action for damages for legal malpractice concerning estate planning; third parties to an attorney-client contract. Provides that an attorney does not owe a legal duty to a person other than the client for the purpose of the client's estate planning, including the provision of legal advice or the preparation of legal documents, unless the client and attorney enter into a signed, written agreement expressly allowing for such. The bill provides that its provisions are declarative of existing law. The bill also repeals the provisions under current law that specify the statute of limitations for legal malpractice actions relating to contracts for legal services concerning estate planning and the tolling of such statute of limitations. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference and is identical to SB 1115.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Nadarius E. Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102767D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2025-01-17 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
  • 2025-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-24 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-28 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-01-30 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2025-01-31 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-11 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-12 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-17 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-02-17 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2174ER) passage
  • 2025-02-17 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
  • 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 450 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0450)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c38f31d-8301-4b66-97c8-7ccd9a764c09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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