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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Assignment of causes of action; limitations."
+description: "Assignment of causes of action. Provides that the limitations on assignable causes of action shall not prohibit any injured party or his estate from making a voluntary assignment of the proceeds or anticipated proceeds into a self-settled trust for which the injured party is the beneficiary, including self-settled trusts for the charitable purpose of one or more charitable organizations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2636"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2636 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-01-13"
+last_action: "2025-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc49722c-d8b5-4bed-bc2e-3ddf38d7a7ce"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2636"
+source_hash: "d0a03ef072e54d9d797f099a31054c535d13471f74e7c5bd7489bcbfee6aa78d"
+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 2636 (2025) — Assignment of causes of action; limitations.
+
+Assignment of causes of action. Provides that the limitations on assignable causes of action shall not prohibit any injured party or his estate from making a voluntary assignment of the proceeds or anticipated proceeds into a self-settled trust for which the injured party is the beneficiary, including self-settled trusts for the charitable purpose of one or more charitable organizations.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1019700.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072420.PDF)
+3. **Senate Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1062720.HTML)
+4. **Senator Surovell, Scott A. Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1062375.HTML)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1067636.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-13** Presented and ordered printed 25104150D `introduction`
+- **2025-01-13** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-24** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-29** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-17** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-18** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-18** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-19** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2025-02-19** Senator Surovell, Scott A. Amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2025-02-19** Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-20** Senate Amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2636ER) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 295 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc49722c-d8b5-4bed-bc2e-3ddf38d7a7ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+