republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1126.md

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Bill	Persons other than ministers who may perform rites of marriage; current VA members of Congress.	Persons other than ministers who may performrites of marriage; current Virginia members of Congress. Addscurrent Virginia members of the United States Senate or United StatesHouse of Representatives to the list of persons who may celebratethe rites of marriage anywhere in the Commonwealth without the necessityof bond or order of authorization.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1126	Virginia HB 1126 (2024)	bill		enacted	Betsy B. Carr	3	23	6	2024-01-10	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/3945f7b2-30b3-4b05-af92-f4f28ac15b01	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1126	be77bedd73f33f30650bf65b9df30a54f6824cf75d3ceb24412044b212719dbf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1126 (2024) — Persons other than ministers who may perform rites of marriage; current VA members of Congress.

Persons other than ministers who may performrites of marriage; current Virginia members of Congress. Addscurrent Virginia members of the United States Senate or United StatesHouse of Representatives to the list of persons who may celebratethe rites of marriage anywhere in the Commonwealth without the necessityof bond or order of authorization.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0412 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1126ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102279D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) — 34–6 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102279D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1126ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 412 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3945f7b2-30b3-4b05-af92-f4f28ac15b01. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).