republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-894.md

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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	SB 894	Virginia SB 894 (2025)	bill		enacted	Russet Perry	9	46	11	2025-01-04	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/59800424-6844-43af-b494-44b071cd1ec2	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB894	95de50aa8f802fb9210aa77bfff86b8d4ea7bd8782cd8940e65c20d0d542f164	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 894 (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 Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor Substitute Not Adopted (committee substitute) — source
6. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
7. House Amendments (committee substitute) — source
8. Senator Perry, Russet Substitute (committee substitute) — source
9. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (4-Y 36-N) — 4–36 (fail) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (17-Y 4-N 1-A) — 17–4 (pass) · lower
• House Amendments agreed to by Senate (30-Y 7-N) — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 1-N 1-A) — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Passage agreed to (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) — 24–13 (pass) · upper
• Passed House with amendments (57-Y 37-N 1-A) — 57–37 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Committee substitute (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsider R — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (25-Y 12-N 1-A) — 25–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Russet Perry — primary (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Obenshain — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100507D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 1-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2025-01-20 Committee substitute printed 25105373D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-21 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-21 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-22 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-22 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-22 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute-SB894S1 substitution
• 2025-01-23 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-24 Passed by temporarily
• 2025-01-24 Reconsideration of Committee substitute (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Committee substitute rejected
• 2025-01-24 Floor substitute printed 25105995D-S2 (Perry)
• 2025-01-24 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-24 Senator Perry, Russet Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-24 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute
• 2025-01-27 Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-27 Reconsideration of Passage agreed to (38-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-27 Passed Senate (25-Y 12-N 1-A) passage
• 2025-02-04 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (17-Y 4-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2025-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-10 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-10 Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-10 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-10 Passed House with amendments (57-Y 37-N 1-A) passage
• 2025-02-12 House Amendments agreed to by Senate (30-Y 7-N) amendment-passage
• 2025-02-17 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-17 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-17 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by Senate executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (SB894S3)
• 2025-03-25 Governor's substitute printed (SB894S3)
• 2025-04-02 Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (4-Y 36-N) veto-override-passage
• 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 727 (Effective 7/1/25) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/59800424-6844-43af-b494-44b071cd1ec2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).