republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-163.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring abortions or selective reductions unenforceable.	Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring or prohibiting abortions or selective reductions unenforceable. Provides that any provision of a surrogacy contract requiring or prohibiting an abortion or selective reduction is against the public policy of the Commonwealth and is void and unenforceable.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 163	Virginia SB 163 (2022)	bill		enacted	Mark J. Peake	4	33	8	2022-01-10	2022-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/ae16c0d9-65da-449f-9362-0e280f55db14	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB163	6a53dc8c957f9b195bf90c14a6d2b607d48ceb84494574f32316754e1322b448	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 163 (2022) — Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring abortions or selective reductions unenforceable.

Surrogacy contracts; provisions requiring or prohibiting abortions or selective reductions unenforceable. Provides that any provision of a surrogacy contract requiring or prohibiting an abortion or selective reduction is against the public policy of the Commonwealth and is void and unenforceable.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0800 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100591D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22100591D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB163ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 9-N) — 10–9 (pass) · lower
• Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 20-N) — 19–20 (fail) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N) — 51–48 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark J. Peake — primary (person)
• David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100591D introduction
• 2022-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2022-01-13 Rereferred from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-13 Rereferred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-01-31 Reported from Judiciary with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-02 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-02 Reading of amendments waived
• 2022-02-02 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2022-02-02 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB163E
• 2022-02-02 Printed as engrossed 22100591D-E
• 2022-02-03 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
• 2022-02-25 Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Passed by for the day
• 2022-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 Passed House (52-Y 48-N) passage
• 2022-03-02 VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N)
• 2022-03-07 Enrolled
• 2022-03-08 Signed by President
• 2022-03-08 Signed by Speaker
• 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
• 2022-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
• 2022-04-27 Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 20-N)
• 2022-04-27 Communicated to Governor on April 27, 2022
• 2022-04-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
• 2022-05-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 800 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ae16c0d9-65da-449f-9362-0e280f55db14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).