2025 Regular SessionVirginia Legislature

HB1775: Divorce; adultery, filing, parties living separate and apart.

Legislative Summary

Divorce; adultery; filing; parties living separate and apart. Specifies that a divorce may be decreed on the grounds of adultery, provided that such adultery occurred prior to the final separation of the parties. The bill further allows for a divorce from bed and board to be decreed on the application of either party upon the parties living separate and apart; under current law, a divorce from bed and board may only be decreed for cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, willful desertion, or abandonment. The bill specifies that no waiting period is required for the filing of such a divorce, but the decree of such a divorce may only be decreed pursuant to certain requirements otherwise specified in the law.

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Bill History

1/6/2025
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101164D
House of Delegates
1/6/2025
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
House of Delegates
1/14/2025
Assigned Courts sub: Civil
House of Delegates
1/15/2025
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
House of Delegates
1/17/2025
Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 6-N)
House of Delegates
1/21/2025
Read first time
House of Delegates
1/22/2025
Read second time and engrossed
House of Delegates
1/23/2025
Read third time and passed House (59-Y 38-N)
House of Delegates
1/24/2025
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Senate
1/24/2025
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Senate
2/12/2025
Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
Senate
2/14/2025
Rules suspended
Senate
2/14/2025
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
Senate
2/14/2025
Passed by for the day
Senate
2/17/2025
Read third time
Senate
2/17/2025
Passed Senate (36-Y 2-N)
Senate
2/19/2025
Enrolled
House of Delegates
2/19/2025
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1775ER)
House of Delegates
2/19/2025
Signed by Speaker
House of Delegates
2/22/2025
Signed by President
Senate
3/3/2025
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
House of Delegates
3/3/2025
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
3/24/2025
Vetoed by Governor
4/2/2025
House sustained Governor's veto
House of Delegates

Roll Call Votes

Passed Senate (36-Y 2-N)
2/17/2025
36
Yea
2
Nay
0
Not Voting
2
Absent
Result: PASSED
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
2/14/2025
36
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
4
Absent
Result: PASSED
Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
2/12/2025
12
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
3
Absent
Result: PASSED
Read third time and passed House (59-Y 38-N)
1/23/2025
59
Yea
38
Nay
0
Not Voting
3
Absent
Result: PASSED
Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 6-N)
1/17/2025
16
Yea
6
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
1/15/2025
7
Yea
1
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Vetoed(3/24/2025)
Chamber
House of Delegates

Sponsors

Democrat: 2
Republican: 1

Documents

Enrolled
Bill Text2/19/20257.1 KB
Introduced
Bill Text1/6/20257.9 KB
Misc
Misc3/24/20251.3 KB