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HB1737

Civilian employees and foreign service officers; personal jurisdiction over a person, domicile, etc.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Chris Collins (R)

Session:
2017 Regular Session

Summary

As Introduced. Personal jurisdiction over a person; domicile and residential requirements for suits for annulment, affirmance, or divorce; civilian employees and foreign service officers.

Extends to all civilian employees of the United States, where current law applies to foreign service officers, certain requirements for a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a person stationed in a territory or foreign country and establishing domicile in the Commonwealth for the purposes of an annulment, affirmance, or divorce. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/07/2017 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100386D
  • 01/07/2017 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 01/13/2017 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
  • 01/23/2017 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 01/27/2017 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N)
  • 01/31/2017 - House: Read first time
  • 02/01/2017 - House: Read second time
  • 02/01/2017 - House: Passed by temporarily
  • 02/01/2017 - House: Engrossed by House
  • 02/02/2017 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
  • 02/02/2017 - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (95-Y 0-N)
  • 02/03/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/03/2017 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 02/15/2017 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
  • 02/17/2017 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
  • 02/20/2017 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/20/2017 - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
  • 02/20/2017 - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/20/2017 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/23/2017 - House: Enrolled
  • 02/23/2017 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1737ER)
  • 02/23/2017 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 02/24/2017 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 02/28/2017 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
  • 02/28/2017 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
  • 03/13/2017 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 480 (effective 7/1/17)
  • 03/13/2017 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480)

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