VA SB519 | 2024 | Regular Session

Virginia Senate Bill 519 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-07 - Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.

Title

Divorce; grounds, cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment, eliminates waiting period.

Roll Calls

2024-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-07	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
2024-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103825D

Subjects

Divorce
Domestic Relations

Virginia State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB519
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB519+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S13V0124+SB0519