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Bill Assignment of causes of action; limitations. Assignment of causes of action. Provides that the limitations on assignable causes of action shall not prohibit any injured party or his estate from making a voluntary assignment of the proceeds or anticipated proceeds into a self-settled trust for which the injured party is the beneficiary, including self-settled trusts for the charitable purpose of one or more charitable organizations. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 2636 Virginia HB 2636 (2025)
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Virginia HB 2636 (2025) — Assignment of causes of action; limitations.

Assignment of causes of action. Provides that the limitations on assignable causes of action shall not prohibit any injured party or his estate from making a voluntary assignment of the proceeds or anticipated proceeds into a self-settled trust for which the injured party is the beneficiary, including self-settled trusts for the charitable purpose of one or more charitable organizations.

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. Senate Amendments (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senator Surovell, Scott A. Amendments (committee substitute) — source
  5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 970 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 990 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) — 980 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Michael J. Webert — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-13 Presented and ordered printed 25104150D introduction
  • 2025-01-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2025-01-24 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
  • 2025-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-29 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
  • 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
  • 2025-02-17 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) 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 Senator Surovell, Scott A. Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
  • 2025-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2025-02-19 Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-20 Senate Amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
  • 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2636ER) 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
  • 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 295 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0295)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc49722c-d8b5-4bed-bc2e-3ddf38d7a7ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).