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Domicile and residential requirements for annulment, affirmance, or divorce; members of the Armed Forces of the United States and civilian employees of the United States; return from station. Provides that, for the purposes of domicile requirements for annulment, affirmance, or divorce, any member of the Armed Forces of the United States or any civilian employee of the United States, including any foreign service officer, who (i) at the time the suit is filed, or immediately preceding such suit, has returned to the Commonwealth following being stationed in any territory or foreign country and (ii) resided or lived in in the Commonwealth for the six-month period immediately preceding his being stationed in such territory or country shall be deemed to have been domiciled in and to have been a bona fide resident of the Commonwealth during the six months preceding the filing of a suit for annulment or divorce.
Introduced
Jan 21, 2026
Last Action
Mar 11, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 2-N 0-A)
Passed Senate with amendment Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate as amended
Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to
Read third time
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House Block Vote (97-Y 0-N 0-A)
Read second time and engrossed
Read first time
Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
Assigned HCJ sub: Civil
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1382)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Presented and ordered printed 26103535D
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Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 2-N 0-A)
Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie