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| Bill | Appeal to Supreme Court; time frame for filing of petition. | Expresses the time frame within which petitions for appeal from a final judgment of a trial court or the State Corporation Commission to the Supreme Court shall be filed, currently expressed in months, in an equivalent number of days. As introduced, the bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | SB 946 | Virginia SB 946 (2017) |
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Virginia SB 946 (2017) — Appeal to Supreme Court; time frame for filing of petition.
Expresses the time frame within which petitions for appeal from a final judgment of a trial court or the State Corporation Commission to the Supreme Court shall be filed, currently expressed in months, in an equivalent number of days. As introduced, the bill is a recommendation of the Judicial Council.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0651) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB946ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104522D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101703D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 14–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2016-12-30 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101703D
introduction - 2016-12-30 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-01-30 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-01-30 Reading of substitute waived
- 2017-01-30 Committee substitute agreed to 17104522D-S1
- 2017-01-30 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB946S1
- 2017-02-03 Placed on Calendar
- 2017-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-02-08 Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
referral-committee - 2017-02-21 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-22 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-22 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage - 2017-03-07 Enrolled
- 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-03-10 Signed by President
- 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 2017-03-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 651 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b12a6337-b211-41a0-b211-792036eac8d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).