---
type: "Bill"
title: "General district courts; jurisdictional limits."
description: "General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for civil actions for personal injury and wrongful death. The bill contains an emergency clause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1108"
citation: "Virginia SB 1108 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-12-02"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77959bf1-2a78-4d03-9014-02ae385cf941"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1108"
source_hash: "2b4751497f4e63fbc6c1da1e472e538bd88fb2f8137c115f5b02a503a9b568cf"
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 1108 (2021) — General district courts; jurisdictional limits.

General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for civil actions for personal injury and wrongful death. The bill contains an emergency clause.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0199** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0199)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103157D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1108S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 21103882D-S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1108S2)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100842D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1108)
5. **SB1108ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1108ER)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) — **35–4** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 1-N) — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 1-N) — **13–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100842D `introduction`
- **2020-12-02** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-18** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-18** Committee substitute printed 21103157D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-18** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Committee substitute printed 21103882D-S2 `substitution`
- **2021-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-29** Impact statement from DPB (SB1108S2)
- **2021-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-29** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-01-29** Committee substitute rejected 21103157D-S1
- **2021-01-29** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-01-29** Committee substitute agreed to 21103882D-S2
- **2021-01-29** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1108S2
- **2021-01-29** Emergency clause added
- **2021-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice
- **2021-02-11** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
- **2021-02-17** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2021-02-22** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2021-02-22** Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-23** House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
- **2021-02-23** Emergency clause deleted
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB1108ER)
- **2021-02-25** Signed by President
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 199 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77959bf1-2a78-4d03-9014-02ae385cf941`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).