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type: "Bill"
title: "Civilian employees and foreign service officers; personal jurisdiction over a person, domicile, etc."
description: "Civilian employees and foreign service officers; personal jurisdiction over a person, domicile, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1737"
citation: "Virginia HB 1737 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Remedies and Procedure", "Domestic Relations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher E. Collins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-07"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ecef94c-6775-4de8-87b5-c4082f80f06e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1737"
source_hash: "9a382a27e2c7678023aad08d512f73dbd7337f8aaae9ce322f5e4588f2948d2e"
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 1737 (2017) — Civilian employees and foreign service officers; personal jurisdiction over a person, domicile, etc.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0480)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1737ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1737ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100386D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1737)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **950** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **150** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Christopher E. Collins — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100386D `introduction`
- **2017-01-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** Passed by temporarily
- **2017-02-01** Engrossed by House
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 480 (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/9ecef94c-6775-4de8-87b5-c4082f80f06e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).