---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military Affairs, Department of; civil actions."
description: "Military Affairs, Department of; civil actions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1360"
citation: "Virginia SB 1360 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Courts Not of Record"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78c34bba-bae1-42c4-a4fb-d52b3c671d0a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1360"
source_hash: "7e4d73db23e1277d64f55b417c290959bc01da3fc2fa653bc3cb264c6731662b"
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 1360 (2017) — Military Affairs, Department of; civil actions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0690)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1360ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1360ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101790D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1360)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–1** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **38–2** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101790D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Referred from Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote
- **2017-02-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 690 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78c34bba-bae1-42c4-a4fb-d52b3c671d0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).