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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth."
+description: "Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 989"
+citation: "Virginia SB 989 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Peake"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2023-01-06"
+last_action: "2023-04-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2085bce3-899c-4695-8a15-1f6903426a64"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB989"
+source_hash: "5ac295c5d74ac144c63363af9518b335bd26fcf0fc3b3eb6b78d6c62f03039c5"
+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 989 (2023) — Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0746** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0746)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103549D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB989)
+3. **SB989ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB989ER)
+4. **SB989ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB989ER2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 1-N 2-A) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (35-Y 5-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Adoption (76-Y 16-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 4-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Peake — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103549D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-01** Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 1-N 2-A) `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 (30-Y 10-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-13** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-16** Passed House (79-Y 20-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB989ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-23** Governor's recommendation received by Senate `executive-veto-line-item`
+- **2023-04-12** Passed by temporarily
+- **2023-04-12** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (35-Y 5-N)
+- **2023-04-12** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (76-Y 16-N)
+- **2023-04-12** VOTE: Adoption (76-Y 16-N)
+- **2023-04-12** Governor's recommendation adopted `executive-signature`
+- **2023-04-12** Reenrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-04-12** Reenrolled bill text (SB989ER2) `enrolled`
+- **2023-04-12** Signed by President as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
+- **2023-04-12** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
+- **2023-04-12** Enacted, Chapter 746 (effective 7/1/23) `became-law`
+- **2023-04-12** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2085bce3-899c-4695-8a15-1f6903426a64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+