republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-870.md

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Bill	Sexual abuse; statute of limitations, personal action for injury to person.	Statute of limitations; sexual abuse. Provides that for a cause of action accruing on or after July 1, 2020, every action for injury to the person resulting from sexual abuse shall be brought within 10 years after the cause of action accrues. This bill does not change the current 20-year statute of limitations for actions for injury to the person resulting from sexual abuse that occurred during the infancy or incapacity of such person.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 870	Virginia HB 870 (2020)	bill		enacted	Jeffrey M. Bourne	4	38	12	2020-01-07	2020-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/0c2ee93e-6fe1-4483-aa77-7183153c56a4	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB870	4e7f6223351a4cddbf6fbc18ef500b86ba650af07ce2abfca4222af4b5f1680a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 870 (2020) — Sexual abuse; statute of limitations, personal action for injury to person.

Statute of limitations; sexual abuse. Provides that for a cause of action accruing on or after July 1, 2020, every action for injury to the person resulting from sexual abuse shall be brought within 10 years after the cause of action accrues. This bill does not change the current 20-year statute of limitations for actions for injury to the person resulting from sexual abuse that occurred during the infancy or incapacity of such person.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1125) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB870ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB870ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. HB870H1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Agree To (93-Y 1-N) — 92–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 96-N) — 0–95 (fail) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N) — 36–3 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeffrey M. Bourne — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101454D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-27 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-31 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Reported from Judiciary with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-19 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-02-19 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2020-02-19 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-19 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-19 Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-21 Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 96-N)
• 2020-02-21 VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 96-N)
• 2020-02-25 Senate insisted on amendment (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-25 Senate requested conference committee
• 2020-02-26 House acceded to request
• 2020-02-26 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-02-28 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-03-04 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-03-04 Conference substitute printed 20109141D-H1
• 2020-03-04 Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 1-N)
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Agree To (93-Y 1-N)
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 3-N)
• 2020-03-18 Enrolled
• 2020-03-18 Signed by President
• 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
• 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1125 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c2ee93e-6fe1-4483-aa77-7183153c56a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).