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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring abortions or selective reductions unenforceable."
+description: "Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring or prohibiting abortions or selective reductions unenforceable. Provides that any provision of a surrogacy contract requiring or prohibiting an abortion or selective reduction is against the public policy of the Commonwealth and is void and unenforceable."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 163"
+citation: "Virginia SB 163 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark J. Peake"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2022-01-10"
+last_action: "2022-05-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae16c0d9-65da-449f-9362-0e280f55db14"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB163"
+source_hash: "6a53dc8c957f9b195bf90c14a6d2b607d48ceb84494574f32316754e1322b448"
+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 SB 163 (2022) — Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring abortions or selective reductions unenforceable.
+
+Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring or prohibiting abortions or selective reductions unenforceable. Provides that any provision of a surrogacy contract requiring or prohibiting an abortion or selective reduction is against the public policy of the Commonwealth and is void and unenforceable.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0800** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0800)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100591D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB163)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 22100591D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB163E)
+4. **SB163ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB163ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 9-N) — **10–9** (pass) · lower
+- Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 20-N) — **19–20** (fail) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Judiciary with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N) — **51–48** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark J. Peake — primary (person)
+- David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100591D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-13** Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-01-13** Rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-31** Reported from Judiciary with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-02** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2022-02-02** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2022-02-02** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB163E
+- **2022-02-02** Printed as engrossed 22100591D-E
+- **2022-02-03** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-22** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
+- **2022-02-25** Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-01** Passed by for the day
+- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-02** Passed House (52-Y 48-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N)
+- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
+- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Governor's recommendation received by Senate
+- **2022-04-27** Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 20-N)
+- **2022-04-27** Communicated to Governor on April 27, 2022
+- **2022-04-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
+- **2022-05-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 800 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae16c0d9-65da-449f-9362-0e280f55db14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+