Jackie Glass
- Democratic
- Delegate
- District 93
Primary
Unauthorized use of name, portrait, voice, likeness, or picture of any person; digital replica; civil liability; statute of limitations. Expands the existing ability for any person to maintain a suit in equity, including the accompanying remedies available, for the unauthorized use of his name, portrait, or picture for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade to include the unauthorized use of his voice or likeness. The bill also creates civil liability for a person who produces, distributes, or makes available the digital replica, defined in the bill, of a person's voice or likeness in an expressive audiovisual work or sound recording without prior written consent, with exceptions enumerated in the bill. The bill also extends the current statute of limitations for such civil suits from 20 years to 100 years after the death of such person.
A BILL to amend and reenact ยง 8.01-40 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unauthorized use of name, portrait, voice, likeness, or picture of any person; digital replica; civil liability; statute of limitations.
Failed to Pass from conference
No further action taken
Conferees appointed by House
Senators: Surovell, Deeds, Reeves
Conferees appointed by Senate
House acceded to request
Senate requested conference committee
Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
Senate substitute rejected by House (1-Y 97-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2462)
Delegates: Glass, Hayes, Wright
Reading of substitute waived
Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 17-N)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
Read third time
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day
Committee substitute printed 25107592D-S1
Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (55-Y 41-N)
Communications, Technology and Innovation Substitute agreed to
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
Read second time
Read first time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2462)
Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
Committee substitute printed 25106067D-H1
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 3-N)
Assigned CT & I sub: Communications
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2462)
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100156D
Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| Courts of Justice Substitute | HTML PDF HTML PDF |
| Communications, Technology and Innovation Substitute | HTML PDF |
| Introduced | HTML PDF |
| Document | Format |
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| Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2462) | PDF PDF PDF |
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