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Bill	General district courts; jurisdictional limits.	General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for civil actions for personal injury and wrongful death. The bill contains an emergency clause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	SB 1108	Virginia SB 1108 (2021)	bill		enacted	William M. Stanley, Jr.	5	41	9	2020-12-02	2021-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/77959bf1-2a78-4d03-9014-02ae385cf941	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1108	2b4751497f4e63fbc6c1da1e472e538bd88fb2f8137c115f5b02a503a9b568cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1108 (2021) — General district courts; jurisdictional limits.

General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for civil actions for personal injury and wrongful death. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0199 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21103157D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 21103882D-S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100842D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1108ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) — 35–4 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 1-N) — 13–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100842D introduction
• 2020-12-02 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-01-18 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-18 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-18 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-18 Committee substitute printed 21103157D-S1 substitution
• 2021-01-18 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-01-27 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-27 Committee substitute printed 21103882D-S2 substitution
• 2021-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-29 Impact statement from DPB (SB1108S2)
• 2021-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-01-29 Reading of substitute waived
• 2021-01-29 Committee substitute rejected 21103157D-S1
• 2021-01-29 Reading of substitute waived
• 2021-01-29 Committee substitute agreed to 21103882D-S2
• 2021-01-29 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1108S2
• 2021-01-29 Emergency clause added
• 2021-02-01 Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice
• 2021-02-11 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2021-02-12 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
• 2021-02-17 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-22 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2021-02-22 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2021-02-22 Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-22 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-23 House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
• 2021-02-23 Emergency clause deleted
• 2021-02-25 Enrolled
• 2021-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB1108ER)
• 2021-02-25 Signed by President
• 2021-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
• 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 199 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77959bf1-2a78-4d03-9014-02ae385cf941. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).