republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1730.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Personal injury or death by wrongful act; liability of employer to vulnerable victims.	Civil actions; liability of employer for personal injury or death by wrongful act. Provides that in an action for personal injury or death by wrongful act brought by a vulnerable victim, defined in the bill, against an employee, a finding that the employee's employer is vicariously liable for such employee's conduct shall be based on several factors, including the likelihood of the employee coming into contact with such vulnerable victim and the employer's failure to exercise reasonable care over the employee.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1730	Virginia HB 1730 (2025)	bill		enacted	Karrie K. Delaney	8	40	12	2025-01-04	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/78113472-a0de-4e93-ae06-95dd4a7449bf	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1730	5867bd60fde533bff5eaa936be37ab7cd4ab9f12f58109689924759bfa8d0e2c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1730 (2025) — Personal injury or death by wrongful act; liability of employer to vulnerable victims.

Civil actions; liability of employer for personal injury or death by wrongful act. Provides that in an action for personal injury or death by wrongful act brought by a vulnerable victim, defined in the bill, against an employee, a finding that the employee's employer is vicariously liable for such employee's conduct shall be based on several factors, including the likelihood of the employee coming into contact with such vulnerable victim and the employer's failure to exercise reasonable care over the employee.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor Substitute Not Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendment (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendment (32-Y 5-N) — 32–5 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (60-Y 38-N 1-A) — 60–38 (pass) · lower
• House rejected Governor's recommendation (31-Y 63-N 1-A) — 31–63 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 4-N 1-A) — 17–4 (pass) · lower
• Senate Amendment agreed to by House (Y-51 N-43 A-1) — 51–43 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with amendment (33-Y 6-N) — 33–6 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N) — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (54-Y 41-N 1-A) — 54–41 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100275D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-10 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
• 2025-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N) substitution
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 4-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Committee substitute printed 25106053D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (60-Y 38-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-11 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-02-12 Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-12 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-12 Passed Senate with amendment (32-Y 5-N) passage
• 2025-02-12 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-12 Passed Senate with amendment (33-Y 6-N) passage
• 2025-02-14 Senate Amendment agreed to by House (Y-51 N-43 A-1) amendment-passage
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1730ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (HB1730H2)
• 2025-04-02 House rejected Governor's recommendation (31-Y 63-N 1-A) veto-override-passage
• 2025-04-02 Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (54-Y 41-N 1-A) enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 726 (Effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0726)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78113472-a0de-4e93-ae06-95dd4a7449bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).