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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Witnesses; exclusion, governmental agencies and other entities."
+description: "Witnesses; exclusion, governmental agencies and other entities."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 1025"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1025 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Stuart"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-07"
+last_action: "2023-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de0e4ee9-3f40-4f94-b367-a413722b7b2a"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1025"
+source_hash: "34ed32c5bf6a1a325a740cb4867ff05bf56e3fd66b88223b6f57bb8d2d531aff"
+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 1025 (2023) — Witnesses; exclusion, governmental agencies and other entities.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0615** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0615)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100836D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1025)
+3. **SB1025ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1025ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Stuart — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100836D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-07** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-01** Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-10** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-13** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-20** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-22** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-23** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1025ER) `passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 615 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0615)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de0e4ee9-3f40-4f94-b367-a413722b7b2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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