---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child support; guidelines for determination of obligation, child support orders."
description: "Provides that the guidelines worksheet relied upon by the court or the Department of Social Services to compute a child support obligation for a support order issued by such court or the Department shall be placed in the court's file or the Department's file, and a copy of such guidelines worksheet shall be provided to the parties. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 982"
citation: "Virginia SB 982 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f33058b4-90ab-4322-a583-c0bbcbc0a46f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB982"
source_hash: "24beb82706bb5a6565ffe2658c8881b7be1dad75e8bc47834e14d4c9d27e81be"
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 SB 982 (2018) — Child support; guidelines for determination of obligation, child support orders.

Provides that the guidelines worksheet relied upon by the court or the Department of Social Services to compute a child support obligation for a support order issued by such court or the Department shall be placed in the court's file or the Department's file, and a copy of such guidelines worksheet shall be provided to the parties. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB982ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB982ER)
2. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106061D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB982S1)
3. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 18105395D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB982)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **17–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 18105395D `introduction`
- **2018-01-19** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-07** Reading of substitute waived
- **2018-02-07** Committee substitute agreed to 18106061D-S1
- **2018-02-07** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB982S1
- **2018-02-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **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 110 (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/f33058b4-90ab-4322-a583-c0bbcbc0a46f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).