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Bill	Unlawful detainer; expungement of actions, effective date.	Unlawful detainer; expungement. Creates a process by which unlawful detainer actions filed in a general district court that have been dismissed or nonsuited may be expunged upon request of the defendant to such action. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022, and the provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 640	Virginia SB 640 (2020)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Surovell	5	43	11	2020-01-07	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a4bea70d-a849-48c7-8683-c161894ca95e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB640	be6aee4dcb80d6ec6788dd4e49131041e94175c709e8ed884cb78893cf0f9ede	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 640 (2020) — Unlawful detainer; expungement of actions, effective date.

Unlawful detainer; expungement. Creates a process by which unlawful detainer actions filed in a general district court that have been dismissed or nonsuited may be expunged upon request of the defendant to such action. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022, and the provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1013) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB640ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB640ES1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB640) (committee substitute) — source
5. SB640S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100736D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB640)
• 2020-01-24 Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Committee substitute printed 20107609D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-06 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 20107609D-S1
• 2020-02-11 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-02-11 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB640ES1
• 2020-02-11 Printed as engrossed 20107609D-ES1
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-11 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-14 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2020-02-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB640ES1)
• 2020-02-28 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-03-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-04 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-03-04 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2020-03-04 Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-05 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-03-05 House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N)
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled
• 2020-03-12 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-17 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
• 2020-03-17 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-20 Impact statement from DPB (SB640ER)
• 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1013 (effective 1/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4bea70d-a849-48c7-8683-c161894ca95e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).