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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; concurrent jurisdiction, suits for divorce."
+description: "Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; concurrent jurisdiction, suits for divorce."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1991"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1991 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Herring"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-10"
+last_action: "2023-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/370c79c4-41a7-419b-8302-624d478f9d0b"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1991"
+source_hash: "901163ada64098b1c7f2cf6247b5b45070c9970725c61840cac52423390a0ae2"
+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 1991 (2023) — Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; concurrent jurisdiction, suits for divorce.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0622** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0622)
+2. **HB1991ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1991ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100639D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1991)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Herring — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100639D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-10** 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`
+- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1991ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 622 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/370c79c4-41a7-419b-8302-624d478f9d0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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