republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-138.md

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Bill	Permissible venue; personal injury and wrongful death actions, appointment of administrator.	Permissible venue; personal injury and wrongful death actions; appointment of administrator on behalf of estate of decedent. Provides that in a personal injury or wrongful death action in which an administrator is appointed on behalf of the estate of a decedent, permissible venue shall lie only in a county or city in which venue would have been properly laid if the person for whom such appointment is made had survived. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference and is identical to HB 779.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 138	Virginia SB 138 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jennifer D. Carroll Foy	3	24	6	2024-01-05	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/8e059ac0-15c1-45a3-a085-74e92ccb8072	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB138	8411727c681284ef39851ea59cd553273ccd506a3136378251d190ead8cb6055	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 138 (2024) — Permissible venue; personal injury and wrongful death actions, appointment of administrator.

Permissible venue; personal injury and wrongful death actions; appointment of administrator on behalf of estate of decedent. Provides that in a personal injury or wrongful death action in which an administrator is appointed on behalf of the estate of a decedent, permissible venue shall lie only in a county or city in which venue would have been properly laid if the person for whom such appointment is made had survived. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference and is identical to HB 779.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0340 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101470D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB138ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101470D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 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
• 2024-02-05 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-07 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB138ER) 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
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 340 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e059ac0-15c1-45a3-a085-74e92ccb8072. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).