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Bill	Protective orders; venue.	Violation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation. This bill is identical to HB 895.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 211	Virginia SB 211 (2024)	bill		enacted	Russet Perry	5	33	7	2024-01-08	2024-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/2ec123fd-10bd-42a9-bf0d-d0accd60ff3b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB211	49cf181d588ee90682b0da16ba09b6734300a22939ea6ece94384c9338ddb59f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 211 (2024) — Protective orders; venue.

Violation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation. This bill is identical to HB 895.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0118 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24105484D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 24107776D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102702D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB211ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee substitute agreed to 24105484D-S1 (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Russet Perry — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102702D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 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
• 2024-01-15 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-15 Committee substitute printed 24105484D-S1 substitution
• 2024-01-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-17 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-17 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-01-17 Committee substitute agreed to 24105484D-S1 (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-01-17 Title replaced 24105484D-S1
• 2024-01-17 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB211S1 substitution
• 2024-01-18 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 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 Committee substitute printed 24107776D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (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 Committee substitute agreed to 24107776D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-21 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB211H1 substitution
• 2024-02-21 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-23 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-23 Title replaced 24107776D-H1
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB211ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 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
• 2024-03-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 118 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-20 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ec123fd-10bd-42a9-bf0d-d0accd60ff3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).