republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-671.md

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Bill	Permanent protective orders; Hope Card Program created.	Permanent protective orders; Hope Card Programcreated. Requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of theSupreme Court of Virginia to develop and all district courts andcircuit courts to implement the Hope Card Program (the Program) forthe issuance of a Hope Card to any person who has been issued a permanentprotective order by any district court or circuit court. The billprovides that a Hope Card issued pursuant to the Program shall bea durable, plastic, wallet-sized card containing, to the extent possible,essential information about the protective order, such as the identifyinginformation and characteristics of the person subject to the protectiveorder, the issuance and expiration date of the protective order, the terms of the protective order, and the names of any other personsprotected by the protective order.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 671	Virginia HB 671 (2022)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	3	33	10	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/ed3e84ff-a0a6-43ec-bb88-15624f0195d1	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB671	1fba3ac8f0ed79b7e8194cdccc192227742908a49351c08cf2c3c96347988e09	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 671 (2022) — Permanent protective orders; Hope Card Program created.

Permanent protective orders; Hope Card Programcreated. Requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of theSupreme Court of Virginia to develop and all district courts andcircuit courts to implement the Hope Card Program (the Program) forthe issuance of a Hope Card to any person who has been issued a permanentprotective order by any district court or circuit court. The billprovides that a Hope Card issued pursuant to the Program shall bea durable, plastic, wallet-sized card containing, to the extent possible,essential information about the protective order, such as the identifyinginformation and characteristics of the person subject to the protectiveorder, the issuance and expiration date of the protective order, the terms of the protective order, and the names of any other personsprotected by the protective order.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0374 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB671ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100428D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100428D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2022-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB671)
• 2022-01-21 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-21 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2022-01-28 Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-28 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-29 Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2022-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-02 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-08 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2022-02-08 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-09 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-02-16 Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-03-02 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-09 Enrolled
• 2022-03-09 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB671ER)
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 374 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ed3e84ff-a0a6-43ec-bb88-15624f0195d1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).