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type: "Bill"
title: "Protective orders; venue."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 211"
citation: "Virginia SB 211 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Russet Perry"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ec123fd-10bd-42a9-bf0d-d0accd60ff3b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB211"
source_hash: "49cf181d588ee90682b0da16ba09b6734300a22939ea6ece94384c9338ddb59f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0118)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24105484D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB211S1)
3. **Committee substitute printed 24107776D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB211H1)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102702D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB211)
5. **SB211ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB211ER)
## Votes
- Committee substitute agreed to 24105484D-S1 (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ec123fd-10bd-42a9-bf0d-d0accd60ff3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).