---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child support orders; special needs trust or ABLE savings trust account."
description: "Provides that, upon the request of either party, a court may order that support payments be made to a special needs trust or an ABLE savings trust account."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1492"
citation: "Virginia HB 1492 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Domestic Relations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick A. Hope"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-15"
last_action: "2017-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3732ddf7-e7f9-4e96-8443-a10609f895c3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1492"
source_hash: "568a3b93880598221bcba1128259e1a1a7876e57a9b0796e55398c7c6023b446"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 1492 (2017) — Child support orders; special needs trust or ABLE savings trust account.

Provides that, upon the request of either party, a court may order that support payments be made to a special needs trust or an ABLE savings trust account.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0095)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1492ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1492ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100235D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1492)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-15** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100235D `introduction`
- **2016-12-15** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-10** Enrolled
- **2017-02-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
- **2017-02-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/13/17
- **2017-02-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 20, 2017
- **2017-02-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 95 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3732ddf7-e7f9-4e96-8443-a10609f895c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).