Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 519: Divorce; grounds, cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment, eliminates waiting period.
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
SB 519 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 9, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Divorce; grounds, cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment, eliminates waiting period. Primary sponsor: Angelia Graves (Democratic). It lists 4 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (November 19, 2024): Left in Courts of Justice.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
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.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 5
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angelia Graves | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 21 |
| Bonita Anthony | Co-sponsor | Democratic | House | 92 |
| Jennifer Boysko | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 38 |
| Nadarius Clark | Co-sponsor | Democratic | House | 84 |
| Saddam Salim | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 37 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Left in Courts of Justice
- Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103825D