S 8185 — Prohibits certain entities from negotiating any contracts or settlements releasing such entities from liability for a tortious or potentially tortious act within thirty days of such act
Congress · introduced 2025-05-19
Prohibits persons, firms, or corporations whose interests are adverse to that of a person who received personal injuries or death as a result of an action by such person, firm or corporation from negotiating any contracts or settlements releasing such person, firm or corporation from liability for the tortious or potentially tortious act within thirty days of such act.
Latest action: 2025-12-19 — VETOED
Sponsors
- Julia Salazar (—, NY-18) — sponsor · 2025-05-19
- Patrick M. Gallivan (—, NY-60) — cosponsor · 2025-05-19
Action timeline
- · senate — REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
- · senate — 1ST REPORT CAL.1425
- · senate — 2ND REPORT CAL.
- · senate — ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- · senate — PASSED SENATE
- · senate — DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- · assembly — REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
- · assembly — SUBSTITUTED FOR A8706
- · assembly — ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.690
- · assembly — PASSED ASSEMBLY
- · assembly — RETURNED TO SENATE
- · senate — DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
- · senate — VETOED MEMO.160
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Inbound (2)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-19 | Patrick M. Gallivan | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-05-19 | Julia Salazar | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Julia Salazar (—, state_upper NY-18) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Patrick M. Gallivan (—, state_upper NY-60) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-05-19 · sponsored by Julia Salazar (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-05-19 · cosponsored by Patrick M. Gallivan (cosponsor) · sponsorship