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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Demurrers; amended pleadings."
description: "Demurrers; amended pleadings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1816"
citation: "Virginia HB 1816 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Remedies and Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Randall Minchew"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/068bec3b-84b2-4d34-baf6-a3f191182d9c"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1816"
source_hash: "6b1b88a6f22a166540aa90997e00fbafbd26c1b9a6d89894c9f161034d083c86"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1816 (2017) — Demurrers; amended pleadings.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0755)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0755)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1816ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1816ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100721D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1816)
## Votes
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- J. Randall Minchew — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100721D `introduction`
- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 755 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/068bec3b-84b2-4d34-baf6-a3f191182d9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).