VA HB863 | 2020 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 30 2020 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-03-02 - Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 30 2020 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-03-02 - Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 7-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
Persons other than ministers who may celebrate rites of marriage; filing of the marriage record. Provides that a marriage license application shall allow parties to a marriage to designate an officiant to celebrate the rites of marriage, provided that such officiant is not younger than 18 years of age and is not a party to the marriage. The bill provides that a license issued with such designation shall serve as authorization for such officiant to celebrate the rites of marriage anywhere in the Commonwealth without the necessity of bond or further order of authorization. The bill removes the bond requirement for a person chosen by a religious society having no ordained minister to complete the certification of marriage. The bill further removes confinement in jail from the penalty for celebrating a marriage without a license. The bill also removes confinement in jail from the penalty for a clerk knowingly issuing a marriage license contrary to law. The bill further allows either the officiant or a party to the marriage to file the marriage record with the State Registrar within five days after the ceremony. Under current law, the officiant is required to file such a record, but a party to the marriage is not allowed to do so.
Title
Persons other than ministers who may celebrate rites of marriage; filing of the marriage record.
Sponsors
| Del. Mark Levine [D] |
Roll Calls
2020-03-02 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 7-N) (Y: 7 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-01-31 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-22 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-31 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-22 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-03-02 | Senate | Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (7-Y 7-N) |
| 2020-03-02 | Senate | Committee substitute printed to LIS only 20108942D-S1 |
| 2020-02-03 | Senate | Referred to Committee on the Judiciary |
| 2020-02-03 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed |
| 2020-01-31 | House | VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2020-01-31 | House | Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2020-01-30 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB863H1 |
| 2020-01-30 | House | Committee substitute agreed to 20106249D-H1 |
| 2020-01-30 | House | Read second time |
| 2020-01-29 | House | Read first time |
| 2020-01-27 | House | Committee substitute printed 20106249D-H1 |
| 2020-01-27 | House | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) |
| 2020-01-22 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) |
| 2020-01-07 | House | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
| 2020-01-07 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104581D |
