republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-156.md

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Bill	Jury service; increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from service upon request.	Exemptions from jury service upon request; age. Increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from jury service upon request. This bill is identical to SB 638.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 156	Virginia HB 156 (2024)	bill		enacted	W. Chad Green	3	23	6	2024-01-02	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/8a81b763-6ac5-4d97-b284-ad417c8e3ed0	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB156	71b06379e581296f0cdf95eac0f2a8f2498c4d35f009c138bbea47388f2fdd5e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 156 (2024) — Jury service; increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from service upon request.

Exemptions from jury service upon request; age. Increases from 70 to 73 the age at which a person is exempt from jury service upon request. This bill is identical to SB 638.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0071 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB156ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102363D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• W. Chad Green — primary (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• J.D. "Danny" Diggs — cosponsor (person)
• Kim A. Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102363D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-02 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Assigned Courts sub: Judicial referral-committee
• 2024-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB156ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 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
• 2024-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 71 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0071)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a81b763-6ac5-4d97-b284-ad417c8e3ed0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).