republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-174.md

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Bill	Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license.	Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the basis of the sex, gender, or race of the parties. The bill also requires that such lawful marriages be recognized in the Commonwealth regardless of the sex, gender, or race of the parties. The bill provides that religious organizations or members of the clergy acting in their religious capacity shall have the right to refuse to perform any marriage. This bill is identical to SB 101.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 174	Virginia HB 174 (2024)	bill		enacted	Rozia A. Henson, Jr.	3	28	10	2024-01-03	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/73445830-def7-445b-b027-b767ae3b51ef	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB174	a6c1a2f7a0f922f2b23c2398047c39989c97323d535c965a10c856ae42293551	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 174 (2024) — Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license.

Marriage lawful regardless of sex, gender, or race of parties; issuance of marriage license. Provides that no person authorized to issue a marriage license shall deny the issuance of such license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the basis of the sex, gender, or race of the parties. The bill also requires that such lawful marriages be recognized in the Commonwealth regardless of the sex, gender, or race of the parties. The bill provides that religious organizations or members of the clergy acting in their religious capacity shall have the right to refuse to perform any marriage. This bill is identical to SB 101.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0021 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB174ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102637D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (22-Y 16-N 1-A) — 22–16 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N) — 22–17 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (54-Y 40-N 1-A) — 53–40 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) — 21–18 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 2-N) — 37–2 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (6-Y 5-N) — 6–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Briana D. Sewell — cosponsor (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua E. Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102637D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
• 2024-01-19 Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-23 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-25 Passed by for the day
• 2024-01-26 Read third time and passed House (54-Y 40-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-26 VOTE: Passage (54-Y 40-N 1-A) passage
• 2024-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-29 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Reported from Courts of Justice (6-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (22-Y 16-N 1-A) passage
• 2024-02-19 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 2-N)
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) passage
• 2024-02-19 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB174ER) passage
• 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-24 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0021)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/73445830-def7-445b-b027-b767ae3b51ef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).