republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-1888.md

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Bill	Tort actions; immunity of persons based on statements made at a Title IX hearing.	Immunity of persons for tort actions based on statements made at certain hearings. Adds to the tort actions for which an individual shall be immune pursuant to applicable law any tort action based solely on a statement made at a Title IX hearing before the applicable tribunal of an institution of higher education. Current law provides that an individual shall be immune for any tort action based solely on statements made at a public hearing before, or otherwise communicated to, the governing body of any locality or other political subdivision, or the boards, commissions, agencies, and authorities thereof, and other governing bodies of any local governmental entity concerning matters properly before such body.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1888	Virginia HB 1888 (2025)	bill		enacted	Marcus B. Simon	9	45	9	2025-01-06	2025-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/b3affcb4-4b76-4689-8a48-6e619d548137	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1888	c646a24bee8cd39337f5e0a2dc7a3097a19b1dd9abf2b292cb7d39721bf4274f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1888 (2025) — Tort actions; immunity of persons based on statements made at a Title IX hearing.

Immunity of persons for tort actions based on statements made at certain hearings. Adds to the tort actions for which an individual shall be immune pursuant to applicable law any tort action based solely on a statement made at a Title IX hearing before the applicable tribunal of an institution of higher education. Current law provides that an individual shall be immune for any tort action based solely on statements made at a public hearing before, or otherwise communicated to, the governing body of any locality or other political subdivision, or the boards, commissions, agencies, and authorities thereof, and other governing bodies of any local governmental entity concerning matters properly before such body.

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 Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Delegate Simon Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
7. Reenrolled (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Amendments (committee substitute) — source
9. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (59-Y 40-N) — 59–40 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (11-Y 3-N 1-A) — 11–3 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (36-Y 4-N) — 36–4 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 1-N) — 95–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate Amendments agreed to by House (55-Y 42-N) — 55–42 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Marcus B. Simon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101622D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2025-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-24 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-24 Committee substitute printed 25105077D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-29 Floor substitute printed 25106424D-H2 (Simon)
• 2025-01-29 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-30 Floor substitute printed 25106555D-H3 (Simon)
• 2025-01-30 Floor substitute printed 25106555D-H3 (Simon)
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 Courts of Justice Substitute rejected
• 2025-01-31 Delegate Simon Substitute 25106555D-H3 agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by House - floor substitute
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (59-Y 40-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (11-Y 3-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2025-02-18 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-18 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Reading of amendments waived
• 2025-02-19 Courts of Justice Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-02-19 Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 1-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate Amendments agreed to by House (55-Y 42-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1888ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 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
• 2025-04-02 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 1-N)
• 2025-04-02 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (36-Y 4-N)
• 2025-04-02 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled bill text (HB1888ER2) enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Enacted, Chapter 641 (Effective 07/01/25) became-law
• 2025-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b3affcb4-4b76-4689-8a48-6e619d548137. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).