| VA | HB110 | Veto | Surrogacy brokers; repeal of prohibition against. Repeals the statute prohibiting any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other entity from accepting compensation for recruiting or procuring surrogates or accepting compensation for otherwise a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB115 | Veto | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB833 | Veto | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB101 | Pass | Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| VA | HB994 | Pass | Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage to be 18 years of age and eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated on the basis of the intent to marry. Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737) |
| VA | HB329 | Pass | Board of Counseling; licensure by endorsement for marriage and family therapists. Directs the Board of Counseling to amend its regulations related to the process for licensure by endorsement for marriage and family therapists. The bill removes requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0431) |
| VA | SB175 | Pass | Persons other than ministers who may perform rites of marriage; former statewide legislators and officials; clerk of a circuit court. Adds any (i) former member of the General Assembly; (ii) former Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0499) |
| VA | HB1126 | Pass | Persons other than ministers who may perform rites of marriage; current Virginia members of Congress. Adds current Virginia members of the United States Senate or United States House of Representatives to the list of persons who may celebrate the rit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412) |
| VA | HB783 | Pass | Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption; discharge of newborn infant. Authorizes a hospital to release a child to his prospective adoptive parents when the birth parent has executed a health care power of attorney. The bill contains technica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090) |
| VA | HB174 | Pass | Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021) |
| VA | HB194 | Pass | Virginia Military Parents Equal Protection Act; Space Force; deployment. Adds members of the Space Force to the list of service members included in the definition of deploying parent or guardian for the purposes of the Virginia Military Parents Equal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022) |
| VA | HB294 | Pass | Protective order in case of family abuse; termination of temporary order of child support. Provides that when a court includes a temporary child support order with the issuance of a protective order in the case of family abuse, such temporary child s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026) |
| VA | HB784 | Pass | Entry or modification of child and spousal support orders; determination of support overages. Specifies that all orders directing or modifying the payment of spousal support where there are minor children whom the parties have a mutual duty to suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0051) |
| VA | HB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective order in case of family abuse; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, provided that the minor has not otherwise been emancipated pursuant to law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB295 | Intro
Sine Die | Protective order in case of family abuse; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, or from filing as next friend on behalf of his minor child against another of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Premarital agreements; enforcement. Provides that a premarital agreement executed on or after July 1, 2024, shall not be enforceable against a person who proves that the other party to the agreement was convicted of criminal sexual assault of the per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1104 | Intro
Sine Die | Wrongful death; death of parent or guardian of child resulting from driving under the influence; child support. Provides that in any action for death by wrongful act where the defendant, as a result of driving a motor vehicle or operating a watercraf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB519 | Intro
Prefile | Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child's health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB813 | Intro
Prefile | Parental access to minor's medical records; consent by certain minors to treatment of mental or emotional disorder. Adds an exception to the right of parental access to a minor child's health records if the furnishing to or review by the requesting p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| VA | HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Termination of parental rights; sexual abuse; clear and convincing standard; petition filed by other parent. Allows a parent to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of the other parent if the circumstances giving rise to such a petition a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Custody and visitation arrangements; best interests of the child; expert testimony; history of abuse. Requires a court to consider any history of family abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, or an act of violence, force, or threat in determining best int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1129 | Intro
Sine Die | Grandparent; petition for visitation. Provides that in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, the court may consider whether (i) the marriage of the parents of such child has bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1129 | Intro
Prefile | Grandparent; petition for visitation. Provides that in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, the court may consider whether (i) the marriage of the parents of such child has bee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes the provision providing that, in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, and a natural or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB766 | Intro
Prefile | Custody and visitation arrangements; best interests of the child; expert testimony; history of abuse. Requires a court to consider any history of family abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, or an act of violence, force, or threat in determining best int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1481 | Intro
Prefile | Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes Visitation; petition of grandparent. Removes the provision providing that, in any case or proceeding in which a grandparent has petitioned the court for visitation with a minor grandchild, and a natural or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB890 | Intro
Prefile | Best interests of the child; assuring frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Provides that, in determining the best interests of a child for purposes of custody and parenting time arrangements, upon request of either party, the court shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB765 | Intro
Prefile | Termination of parental rights; sexual abuse; clear and convincing standard; petition filed by other parent. Allows a parent to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of the other parent if the circumstances giving rise to such a petition a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption. Makes Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption. Makes various changes to statutes governing parental placement and agency adoptions. The bill authorizes a hospital to release a child to his ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| VA | HB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1311 | Intro
Sine Die | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1311 | Intro
Prefile | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB273 | Intro
Prefile | Divorce; cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment; divorce from bed and board. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
