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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Divorce; affidavit submitted as evidence, minor children of the parties."
+description: "Divorce; affidavit submitted as evidence, minor children of the parties."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1385"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1385 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ballard"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2022-11-13"
+last_action: "2023-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60fe9642-0406-4385-8e76-f9848adb5857"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1385"
+source_hash: "e5bed479c0de45d719546a35eed8dec490d08a7a06a24e25f99774a19b16f6bf"
+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 1385 (2023) — Divorce; affidavit submitted as evidence, minor children of the parties.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0114** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0114)
+2. **HB1385ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1385ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100592D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1385)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ballard — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-11-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100592D `filing, introduction`
+- **2022-11-13** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-23** Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-27** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-01-30** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1385ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 114 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0114)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60fe9642-0406-4385-8e76-f9848adb5857`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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