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type: "Bill"
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title: "Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports, eliminates requirement for identification of race."
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description: "Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports; identification of race. Eliminates the requirement that the race of married parties be included in marriage records, divorce reports, and annulment reports filed with the State Registrar. The bill also removes the requirement that the State Registrar include race data in the compilation and posting of marriage, divorce, and annulment data. This bill incorporates SB 19 and is identical to HB 180 and SB 1066."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "SB 62"
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citation: "Virginia SB 62 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 29
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2019-11-19"
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last_action: "2020-03-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/793f33dd-11ae-48dd-b3b8-884e6d1e99b3"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB62"
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source_hash: "20899739903c75c89433bf6edce608e4a1669b1f560d6c4db7bdecb4ef010cf8"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 62 (2020) — Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports, eliminates requirement for identification of race.
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Marriage records; divorce and annulment reports; identification of race. Eliminates the requirement that the race of married parties be included in marriage records, divorce reports, and annulment reports filed with the State Registrar. The bill also removes the requirement that the State Registrar include race data in the compilation and posting of marriage, divorce, and annulment data. This bill incorporates SB 19 and is identical to HB 180 and SB 1066.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0210)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0210)
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2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB62ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB62ER)
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3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB62S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB62S1)
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4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB62)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB62)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)
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- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
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- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
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- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
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- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-11-19** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100816D `introduction`
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- **2019-11-19** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-08** Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
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- **2020-01-09** Impact statement from DPB (SB62)
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- **2020-01-15** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-01-15** Incorporates SB19 (Ebbin)
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- **2020-01-15** Committee substitute printed 20105900D-S1 `substitution`
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- **2020-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-01-20** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2020-01-20** Reading of substitute waived
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- **2020-01-20** Committee substitute agreed to 20105900D-S1
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- **2020-01-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB62S1
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- **2020-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2020-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (SB62S1)
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- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
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- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-18** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2020-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2020-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2020-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
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- **2020-02-25** Enrolled
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- **2020-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB62ER)
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- **2020-02-25** Signed by Speaker
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- **2020-02-26** Signed by President
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- **2020-03-03** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 3, 2020
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- **2020-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
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- **2020-03-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 210 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/793f33dd-11ae-48dd-b3b8-884e6d1e99b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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