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type: "Bill"
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title: "Public officers; death, resignation, or ceasing to hold office, automatic substitution."
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description: "Public officers; death, resignation, or ceasing to hold office; automatic substitution. Provides that certain provisions providing for the dismissal of an action where a party fails to make a motion for substitution of parties when such motion is necessary do not apply in actions where a public officer is a party in an official capacity, provided that the only claim in such action was made against such public officer in his official capacity, and such officer dies, resigns, or otherwise ceases to hold office while an action is pending. In any such instance, such public officer's successor shall be automatically substituted as a party. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 2476"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2476 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Rozia A. Henson, Jr."]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2025-01-08"
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last_action: "2025-03-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88603175-5edb-4b6a-8d89-af0b4a386158"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2476"
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source_hash: "b20522f472962b8cccfe1a3d73d6a3e3c68387a9f03660aafbea389aa9d8dd2b"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 2476 (2025) — Public officers; death, resignation, or ceasing to hold office, automatic substitution.
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Public officers; death, resignation, or ceasing to hold office; automatic substitution. Provides that certain provisions providing for the dismissal of an action where a party fails to make a motion for substitution of parties when such motion is necessary do not apply in actions where a public officer is a party in an official capacity, provided that the only claim in such action was made against such public officer in his official capacity, and such officer dies, resigns, or otherwise ceases to hold office while an action is pending. In any such instance, such public officer's successor shall be automatically substituted as a party. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1016444.PDF)
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2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077122.PDF)
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3. **Courts of Justice Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1026270.PDF)
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4. **Courts of Justice Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1055568.HTML)
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5. **Senate Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1062557.HTML)
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6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1067111.PDF)
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## Votes
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- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Senate Amendment agreed to by House (92-Y 1-N) — **92–1** (pass) · lower
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- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102764D `filing, introduction`
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- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-21** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-22** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2025-01-24** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-24** Committee substitute printed 25105575D-H1 `substitution`
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- **2025-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2025-01-29** Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
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- **2025-01-29** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
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- **2025-01-30** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
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- **2025-01-31** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-17** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-18** Rules suspended
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- **2025-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
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- **2025-02-18** Passed by for the day
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- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2025-02-19** Reading of amendment waived
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- **2025-02-19** Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-02-19** Engrossed by Senate as amended
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- **2025-02-19** Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2025-02-20** Senate Amendment agreed to by House (92-Y 1-N) `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2476ER) `passage`
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- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
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- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
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- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 460 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
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- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460)
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88603175-5edb-4b6a-8d89-af0b4a386158`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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