No-fault divorce; corroboration requirement.
Summary
No-fault divorce; corroboration requirement.Removes the corroborating witness requirement for no-fault divorces.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Feb 2021
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
Signed into Law
Mar 2021
Introduced Jan 10, 2021
Signed Mar 18, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Feb 16, 2021 · House of Delegates Jan 25, 2021
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 33
Feb 16, 2021
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican16
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
29
Key actions
9
Committee
7
Mar 18, 2021
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 194 (effective 7/1/21)
executive
Feb 18, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (27-Y 12-N)
upper
Feb 17, 2021
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 16, 2021
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (32-0-1)
senate
Feb 15, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
upper
Feb 15, 2021
Upper · Passed
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Jan 26, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
upper
Jan 25, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (60-Y 39-N)
lower
Jan 20, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 7-N)
lower
Jan 15, 2021
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 14, 2021
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Civil
lower
Jan 10, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 10, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100782D
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Patrick Hope
DDemocratic
Co
Kathleen Murphy
DDemocratic
Co
Kaye Kory
DDemocratic
Co
Mark H. Levine
DDemocratic
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