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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Contempt of court; willful failure to appear."
+description: "Provides that contempt of court for willful failure to appear may be punished summarily. The bill also requires judges to indicate, in writing, the reason for a charge and punishment of contempt when punished summarily. As introduced, this bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2452"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2452 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Crimes and Offenses Generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Les R. Adams"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-01-09"
+last_action: "2019-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/309990c0-bae8-4831-bec3-9c9e7f6bb467"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2452"
+source_hash: "b40f7c4d7a18ab4767ac29608a4a3152bd0655d148468e976708f0eab2608d3c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 2452 (2019) — Contempt of court; willful failure to appear.
+
+Provides that contempt of court for willful failure to appear may be punished summarily. The bill also requires judges to indicate, in writing, the reason for a charge and punishment of contempt when punished summarily. As introduced, this bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0708)
+2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2452AH)
+3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2452)
+4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2452ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2452ER)
+5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104039D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2452)
+6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19104039D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2452E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Les R. Adams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104039D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-15** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-24** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2019-01-24** Engrossed by House as amended HB2452E
+- **2019-01-24** Printed as engrossed 19104039D-E
+- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Passed by for the day
+- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
+- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 708 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/309990c0-bae8-4831-bec3-9c9e7f6bb467`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+