---
type: "Bill"
title: "Proceeds of a sale, a partition suit, or condemnation proceeding; persons under a disability, etc."
description: "Increases the amount of funds that a court can distribute, without the intervention of a fiduciary, to a person under a disability who is the recipient of those funds pursuant to a suit for the sale or lease of lands, a partition suit, or condemnation proceedings. The bill further provides that such funds may be distributed to a special needs trust at the request of an appointed fiduciary or guardian ad litem of the person under a disability or upon the court's own motion."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 162"
citation: "Virginia HB 162 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Remedies and Procedure", "Courts Not of Record", "Persons with Disabilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-12-21"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d11b665-9534-4986-ac91-ebf89ed12a79"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB162"
source_hash: "4028c76b33208b8b6d1f9d1c61ec97a6577998f5c37a361fb2e33f208d0b34df"
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 162 (2018) — Proceeds of a sale, a partition suit, or condemnation proceeding; persons under a disability, etc.

Increases the amount of funds that a court can distribute, without the intervention of a fiduciary, to a person under a disability who is the recipient of those funds pursuant to a suit for the sale or lease of lands, a partition suit, or condemnation proceedings. The bill further provides that such funds may be distributed to a special needs trust at the request of an appointed fiduciary or guardian ad litem of the person under a disability or upon the court's own motion.

## Version chain

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

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB162ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB162ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18104726D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB162H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101212D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB162)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **18–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)
- Mark J. Peake — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101212D `introduction`
- **2017-12-21** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 18104726D-H1
- **2018-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB162H1
- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 124 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d11b665-9534-4986-ac91-ebf89ed12a79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).