l9n/ Oregon

2009 Regular Session

Senate Bill 807

Allows plaintiff in civil action or suit based on use of tobacco, or exposure to tobacco, to recover costs of medical monitoring for disease without showing of present injury if plaintiff establishes that plaintiff has increased risk of disease by reason of use or exposure.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on June 29, 2009. The 2009 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Allows plaintiff in civil action or suit based on use of tobacco, or exposure to tobacco, to recover costs of medical monitoring for disease without showing of present injury if plaintiff establishes that plaintiff has increased risk of disease by reason of use or exposure. Provides that in action or suit to recover costs of medical monitoring, judgment may require that as condition of receiving medical monitoring plaintiff must have ceased use of tobacco products or have agreed to enter smoking cessation program paid for by defendant. Requires that action or suit to recover costs of medical monitoring for disease based on use of tobacco, or exposure to tobacco, must be commenced not more than two years after later of effective date of 2009 Act, or date on which plaintiff first discovered, or in exercise of reasonable care should have discovered, increased risk of disease by reason of use of tobacco or exposure to tobacco.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    SJUD

    Its course

    March 5 to June 29, 2009, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action4 actions on 4 days

    In the SenateMar 5 to Jun 29 · stopped116 days

    Waiting for a committeeMar 5 to Mar 127 days

    JudiciaryMar 12 to Jun 29 · stopped109 days

    Text

    Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Mar 5 – Jun 29

    1. Mar 5Introduced
    2. Mar 12Sent to Judiciary
    3. Apr 9Heard in Judiciary
    4. Jun 29Died when the session ended
    All 4 actions, as published
    1. Mar 5Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
    2. Mar 12Referred to Judiciary.Senate
    3. Apr 9Public Hearing held.Senate
    4. Jun 29In committee upon adjournment.Senate