---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process."
description: "Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 812"
citation: "Virginia SB 812 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Petersen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-12-13"
last_action: "2023-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fa5298b-9dee-4dad-844f-7b13541e9bfd"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB812"
source_hash: "b58dd7c8329509d6401236ee806775939ff9128deeb187b4b29fd5a1bf1757fb"
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 812 (2023) — Emergency relief payments; automatic exemption from creditor process.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0457** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0457)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102260D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB812)
3. **SB812ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB812ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Petersen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102260D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-13** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-19** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-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`
- **2023-02-13** Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB812ER) `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`
- **2023-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 457 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fa5298b-9dee-4dad-844f-7b13541e9bfd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).