HB1775
Divorce; adultery, filing, parties living separate and apart.
Status:
Vetoed
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
House: House sustained Governor's veto
Chief Patron:
Rip Sullivan (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Divorce; adultery; filing; parties living separate and apart.
Specifies that a divorce may be decreed on the grounds of adultery, provided that such adultery occurred prior to the final separation of the parties. The bill further allows for a divorce from bed and board to be decreed on the application of either party upon the parties living separate ... (More) and apart; under current law, a divorce from bed and board may only be decreed for cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, willful desertion, or abandonment. The bill specifies that no waiting period is required for the filing of such a divorce, but the decree of such a divorce may only be decreed pursuant to certain requirements otherwise specified in the law. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/06/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101164D
- 01/06/2025 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/14/2025 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
- 01/14/2025 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 01/15/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/16/2025 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 01/17/2025 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 6-N)
- 01/21/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/22/2025 - House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/23/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (59-Y 38-N) Close Floor Vote
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (36-Y 2-N)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/19/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1775ER)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/22/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/03/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
- 03/03/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - House: Governor's Veto Received by House
- 03/24/2025 - Vetoed by Governor
- 04/02/2025 - House: House sustained Governor's veto
