General district courts; increases jurisdictional limits.
Summary
General district courts; jurisdictional limits. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the maximum civil jurisdictional limit of general district courts for all civil actions. Under current law, only civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death have a maximum jurisdictional limit of $50,000. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Jan 8, 2025
Signed Mar 21, 2025
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MINOR
This bill converts Virginia's SB 1291 from an enrolled legislative bill to a chaptered act, making it officially law. The substantive content of the bill remains unchanged, with no modifications to jurisdictional limits, court procedures, or legal requirements.
TECHNICAL
Formatting and layout changes from legislative draft to official published law format, including chapter number assignment (Chapter 338) and approval date (March 21, 2025)
Floor votes · Senate Jan 24, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 13, 2025
How they voted
37–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 40
Jan 24, 2025
D
Democratic21
95% Yea
R
Republican19
89% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
28
Key actions
10
Committee
6
Mar 21, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 338 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive
Feb 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1291ER)
upper
Feb 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed House (96-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Civil
lower
Feb 5, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 24, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 8, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mark Peake
RRepublican
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