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Bill No-fault divorce; corroboration requirement. No-fault divorce; corroboration requirement.Removes the corroborating witness requirement for no-fault divorces. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2021 HB 1911 Virginia HB 1911 (2021)
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Virginia HB 1911 (2021) — No-fault divorce; corroboration requirement.

No-fault divorce; corroboration requirement.Removes the corroborating witness requirement for no-fault divorces.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0194 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 21104489D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. HB1911ER (committee substitute) — source
  4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100782D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Committee substitute rejected 21204489D-S1 (18-Y 21-N) — 1821 (fail) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (60-Y 39-N) — 5939 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N) — 105 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — 62 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (27-Y 12-N) — 2712 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 7-N) — 157 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — 140 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)
  • Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
  • Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
  • Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100782D introduction
  • 2021-01-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2021-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
  • 2021-01-15 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
  • 2021-01-20 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 7-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-01-21 Read first time reading-1
  • 2021-01-22 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2021-01-25 Read third time and passed House (60-Y 39-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2021-01-25 VOTE: Passage (60-Y 39-N)
  • 2021-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2021-01-26 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-15 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-02-15 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-15 Committee substitute printed 21104489D-S1 substitution
  • 2021-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-17 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-17 Passed by for the day
  • 2021-02-18 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-18 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2021-02-18 Committee substitute rejected 21204489D-S1 (18-Y 21-N)
  • 2021-02-18 Passed Senate (27-Y 12-N) passage
  • 2021-02-22 Enrolled
  • 2021-02-22 Signed by President
  • 2021-02-24 Signed by Speaker
  • 2021-02-25 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
  • 2021-02-25 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
  • 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 194 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/50358ffe-37f2-4cc7-8675-013a1e42be3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).