republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1291.md

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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	General district courts; increases jurisdictional limits.	General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for all civil actions. Under current law, only civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death have a maximum jurisdictional limit of $50,000. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1291	Virginia SB 1291 (2025)	bill		enacted	Mark J. Peake	3	28	6	2025-01-08	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/8a9ab999-64f6-48ff-a590-d140167701a4	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1291	51c695a31f341c11b75249811bdd2a1c9597c53521a0220d13447df5bb63e4f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1291 (2025) — General district courts; increases jurisdictional limits.

General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for all civil actions. Under current law, only civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death have a maximum jurisdictional limit of $50,000. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark J. Peake — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100257D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-22 Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-24 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by Senate
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1291)
• 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2025-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1291ER) passage
• 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1291)
• 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 338 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0338)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a9ab999-64f6-48ff-a590-d140167701a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).