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Bill	Custody and visitation orders; exchange of child.	Provides that in custody and visitation cases, at the request of either party, the court may order that the exchange of a child take place at an appropriate meeting place.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2317	Virginia HB 2317 (2019)	bill	Domestic Relations Minors	enacted	Lashrecse D. Aird	8	25	9	2019-01-08	2019-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/c619f330-962a-4191-ae9a-4835ad713bf0	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2317	f669f1b348bf33686d785400421957cd16f86de6a41935b56c6ce917271c9ae7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2317 (2019) — Custody and visitation orders; exchange of child.

Provides that in custody and visitation cases, at the request of either party, the court may order that the exchange of a child take place at an appropriate meeting place.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2317ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103599D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19103599D-E (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19107033D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate substitute with amendment agreed to 19107033D-S1 — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute with amendment — 27–13 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 8–6 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute with amendment — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103599D introduction
• 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2019-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-01-30 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2019-01-30 Engrossed by House as amended HB2317E
• 2019-01-30 Printed as engrossed 19103599D-E
• 2019-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-01 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-20 Committee substitute agreed to 19107033D-S1
• 2019-02-20 Reading of amendment waived
• 2019-02-20 Amendment by Senator Obenshain agreed to amendment-passage
• 2019-02-20 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment HB2317S1
• 2019-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-21 Senate substitute with amendment agreed to 19107033D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
• 2019-02-23 Enrolled
• 2019-02-23 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-23 Signed by President
• 2019-03-04 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
• 2019-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 378 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c619f330-962a-4191-ae9a-4835ad713bf0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).