Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 1775: Divorce; adultery, filing, parties living separate and apart.
Vetoed Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
- Vetoed
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
HB 1775 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Divorce; adultery, filing, parties living separate and apart. Primary sponsor: Rip Sullivan (Democratic). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 2, 2025): House sustained Governor's veto.
Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written
Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
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.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Sullivan | Primary sponsor | Democratic | House | 6 |
| Nadarius Clark | Co-sponsor | Democratic | House | 84 |
| Tom Garrett | Co-sponsor | Republican | House | 56 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- House sustained Governor's veto
- Vetoed by Governor
- Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
- Signed by President
- Signed by Speaker
- Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1775ER)
- Enrolled
- Passed Senate (36-Y 2-N)
- Read third time
- Passed by for the day
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
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