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| Bill | Pro se minors; signing of pleading, motion, or other paper by next friend. | Provides that a minor who is not represented by an attorney shall sign his pleading, motion, or other paper by his next friend. The bill further provides that either or both parents of such minor may sign on such minor's behalf as his next friend, unless such signature is otherwise prohibited by § 64.2-716 of the Uniform Trust Code. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2018 | HB 1212 | Virginia HB 1212 (2018) |
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4 | 23 | 7 | 2018-01-10 | 2018-02-28 | openstates | ocd-bill/7fa0e81c-6429-4bed-a5d6-284a433850ef | http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1212 | 8bbaf6fc98f2c9d5a61260c28a02f262aa8512cd26a3a61c4705c35f87d739f9 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 1212 (2018) — Pro se minors; signing of pleading, motion, or other paper by next friend.
Provides that a minor who is not represented by an attorney shall sign his pleading, motion, or other paper by his next friend. The bill further provides that either or both parents of such minor may sign on such minor's behalf as his next friend, unless such signature is otherwise prohibited by § 64.2-716 of the Uniform Trust Code.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1212ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102872D (committee substitute) — source
- House: Printed as engrossed 18102872D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — 18–0 (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendments — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Benjamin L. Cline — primary (person)
- David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102872D
introduction - 2018-01-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2018-01-18 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2018-01-31 Read first time
reading-1 - 2018-02-01 Read second time
reading-2 - 2018-02-01 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2018-02-01 Engrossed by House as amended HB1212E
- 2018-02-01 Printed as engrossed 18102872D-E
- 2018-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2018-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2018-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2018-02-14 Read third time
reading-3 - 2018-02-14 Reading of amendments waived
- 2018-02-14 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2018-02-14 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2018-02-16 Placed on Calendar
- 2018-02-16 Senate amendments agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- 2018-02-19 Enrolled
- 2018-02-19 Signed by Speaker
- 2018-02-21 Signed by President
- 2018-02-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
- 2018-02-22 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
- 2018-02-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 59 (effective 7/1/18)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7fa0e81c-6429-4bed-a5d6-284a433850ef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).