---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil actions; standards governing consolidation and transfer, allocation of attorney fees."
description: "Civil actions; standards governing consolidation and transfer, allocation of attorney fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2105"
citation: "Virginia HB 2105 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bourne"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d67b1e11-f073-4f30-abdd-e41f0e5589d5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2105"
source_hash: "fdba0ddcb5c7216c8ab2d32ac018ac4b416fad5079d1830f81b8c40b3d62ccff"
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 2105 (2023) — Civil actions; standards governing consolidation and transfer, allocation of attorney fees.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0563** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0563)
2. **HB2105ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2105ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102119D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2105)

## Votes

- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bourne — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102119D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-23** Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-27** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-30** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2105ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 563 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0563)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d67b1e11-f073-4f30-abdd-e41f0e5589d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).