republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-101.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 HB 174.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 101	Virginia SB 101 (2024)	bill		enacted	Adam P. Ebbin	3	24	6	2024-01-03	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/b6bd556f-1291-44eb-a22f-ee92373348b5	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB101	0e642612d935e1946825aecbd6c2f76df0461f8cfa78cb61f473030776b023c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 101 (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 HB 174.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0760 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101679D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB101ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — 22–18 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N 1-A) — 8–5 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (58-Y 42-N) — 57–42 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
• Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101679D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-02-12 Reported from Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2024-02-13 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-13 Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) passage
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed House (58-Y 42-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Passage (58-Y 42-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB101ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-28 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 760 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6bd556f-1291-44eb-a22f-ee92373348b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).