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| Bill | Sexual abuse during infancy or incapacity; accrual. | Sexual abuse during infancy or incapacity; accrual. Adds to the accrual provisions for personal injury actions resulting from sexual abuse during the infancy or incapacity of a person that accrual occurs when corroborative evidence, as defined in the bill, is discovered or by the exercise of due diligence reasonably should have been discovered. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | HB 1020 | Virginia HB 1020 (2026) |
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Virginia HB 1020 (2026) — Sexual abuse during infancy or incapacity; accrual.
Sexual abuse during infancy or incapacity; accrual. Adds to the accrual provisions for personal injury actions resulting from sexual abuse during the infancy or incapacity of a person that accrual occurs when corroborative evidence, as defined in the bill, is discovered or by the exercise of due diligence reasonably should have been discovered.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Civil Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage R — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — 98–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Atoosa R. Reaser — primary (person)
- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104934D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-14 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2026-01-29 Assigned HCJ sub: Civil
referral-committee - 2026-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- 2026-02-04 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-06 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-09 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-09 committee amendments agreed to
amendment-passage - 2026-02-09 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2026-02-10 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 2026-02-11 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2026-02-18 Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-20 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-20 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-23 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-02-23 Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-02-25 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-02-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1020ER)
passage - 2026-02-25 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-02-25 Signed by President
passage - 2026-03-10 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026
enrolled, executive-receipt - 2026-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
executive-receipt - 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 251 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2a2326d7-051b-4d2e-9328-e370ed70bb98. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).