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HB 1737 Civilian employees and foreign service officers; personal jurisdiction over a person, domicile, etc.
Introduced by: Christopher E. Collins | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
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.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100386D pdf
- 02/23/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1737ER) pdf
- 03/13/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/07/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100386D
- 01/07/17 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/13/17 House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
- 01/23/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/17 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/17 House: Read first time
- 02/01/17 House: Read second time
- 02/01/17 House: Passed by temporarily
- 02/01/17 House: Engrossed by House
- 02/02/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/17 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/15/17 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/17 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/17 House: Enrolled
- 02/23/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1737ER)
- 02/23/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/28/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- 02/28/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/13/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 480 (effective 7/1/17)
- 03/13/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480)