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type: "Bill"
title: "Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth."
description: "Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 989"
citation: "Virginia SB 989 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peake"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2085bce3-899c-4695-8a15-1f6903426a64"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB989"
source_hash: "5ac295c5d74ac144c63363af9518b335bd26fcf0fc3b3eb6b78d6c62f03039c5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 989 (2023) — Crime victim rights; notification from the attorney for the Commonwealth.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0746** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0746)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103549D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB989)
3. **SB989ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB989ER)
4. **SB989ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB989ER2)
## Votes
- Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 1-N 2-A) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (35-Y 5-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (76-Y 16-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 4-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Peake — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103549D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 1-N 2-A) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House (79-Y 20-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB989ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Governor's recommendation received by Senate `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2023-04-12** Passed by temporarily
- **2023-04-12** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (35-Y 5-N)
- **2023-04-12** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (76-Y 16-N)
- **2023-04-12** VOTE: Adoption (76-Y 16-N)
- **2023-04-12** Governor's recommendation adopted `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-12** Reenrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-04-12** Reenrolled bill text (SB989ER2) `enrolled`
- **2023-04-12** Signed by President as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2023-04-12** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2023-04-12** Enacted, Chapter 746 (effective 7/1/23) `became-law`
- **2023-04-12** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0746)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2085bce3-899c-4695-8a15-1f6903426a64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).