---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sexual abuse during infancy or incapacity; accrual."
description: "Sexual abuse during infancy or incapacity; accrual. Adds to the accrual provisions for personal injury actions resulting from sexual abuse during the infancy or incapacity of a person that accrual occurs when corroborative evidence, as defined in the bill, is discovered or by the exercise of due diligence reasonably should have been discovered."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1020"
citation: "Virginia HB 1020 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atoosa R. Reaser"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a2326d7-051b-4d2e-9328-e370ed70bb98"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1020"
source_hash: "eda60596765b1665f7d83f85417b4b4404131d73fb658d8b854e2fc7ed7038be"
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 1020 (2026) — Sexual abuse during infancy or incapacity; accrual.

Sexual abuse during infancy or incapacity; accrual. Adds to the accrual provisions for personal injury actions resulting from sexual abuse during the infancy or incapacity of a person that accrual occurs when corroborative evidence, as defined in the bill, is discovered or by the exercise of due diligence reasonably should have been discovered.

## 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/1087138.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217310.PDF)
3. **Civil Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1104812.HTML)
4. **Courts of Justice Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1127322.HTML)
5. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1132013.PDF)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1177865.PDF)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atoosa R. Reaser — primary (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104934D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Assigned HCJ sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- **2026-02-04** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-09** committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-09** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-02-10** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-11** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18** Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-20** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-20** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-23** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-02-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1020ER) `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 251 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a2326d7-051b-4d2e-9328-e370ed70bb98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).