republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-693.md

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Bill	Common-law defense of intra-family immunity; abolished in certain cases.	Common-law defense of intra-family immunity;abolished in certain cases. Abolishes the common-law defenseof intra-family immunity for wrongful death actions that accrue onor after July 1, 2020.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 693	Virginia SB 693 (2020)	bill		enacted	Mark D. Obenshain	3	23	6	2020-01-07	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/5ce90e5b-63ba-40e6-a2a9-059eb2b04008	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB693	0ef9eafeec66838640fe8fe0e402729ce78c33df907475a96e2c1cf51614507a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 693 (2020) — Common-law defense of intra-family immunity; abolished in certain cases.

Common-law defense of intra-family immunity;abolished in certain cases. Abolishes the common-law defenseof intra-family immunity for wrongful death actions that accrue onor after July 1, 2020.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0906) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB693ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB693ER) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102469D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-20 Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law referral-committee
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-12 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-12 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-10 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 906 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ce90e5b-63ba-40e6-a2a9-059eb2b04008. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).