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Bill	Protective orders, preliminary; full hearing date if an act of God causes closure of a court, etc.	Provides that if a court is lawfully closed and such closure prevents the full hearing for a preliminary protective order from being held within 15 days of the issuance of the preliminary order, the hearing shall be held on the next day not a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which the court is lawfully closed.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1673	Virginia HB 1673 (2019)	bill	Courts Not of Record Criminal Procedure	enacted	Michael P. Mullin	4	20	7	2018-12-03	2019-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/d3ca65e4-11b2-4504-9bb0-6a1f0f52fc45	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1673	7ac36b1aa280c7131afd3299441ed0e212568e69a44f7f286f7cd3eefa473268	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1673 (2019) — Protective orders, preliminary; full hearing date if an act of God causes closure of a court, etc.

Provides that if a court is lawfully closed and such closure prevents the full hearing for a preliminary protective order from being held within 15 days of the issuance of the preliminary order, the hearing shall be held on the next day not a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which the court is lawfully closed.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1673ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100681D (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106489D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106489D-S1 — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michael P. Mullin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100681D introduction
• 2018-12-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-01-07 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2019-01-23 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2019-01-25 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-01-28 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 19106489D-S1
• 2019-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1673S1
• 2019-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-13 Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106489D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
• 2019-02-15 Enrolled
• 2019-02-15 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-15 Signed by President
• 2019-02-19 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
• 2019-02-19 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 197 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d3ca65e4-11b2-4504-9bb0-6a1f0f52fc45. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).