---
type: "Bill"
title: "Initial child support order; unreimbursed medical expenses for pregnancy and birth."
description: "Initial child support order; unreimbursed medicalexpenses for pregnancy and birth. Provides that for any initialchild support proceeding that is commenced within six months of thebirth of a child, the order shall provide that the parents pay inproportion to their gross incomes any reasonable and necessary unpaidexpenses of the mother's pregnancy and the delivery of such child."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 428"
citation: "Virginia SB 428 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Surovell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c8a7a93-3628-429b-8377-5565df8f64e6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB428"
source_hash: "c65c3e7aea9233848fc1040bdb8b73140f25d122b01bad9ae9736c8dffa10feb"
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 428 (2020) — Initial child support order; unreimbursed medical expenses for pregnancy and birth.

Initial child support order; unreimbursed medicalexpenses for pregnancy and birth. Provides that for any initialchild support proceeding that is commenced within six months of thebirth of a child, the order shall provide that the parents pay inproportion to their gross incomes any reasonable and necessary unpaidexpenses of the mother's pregnancy and the delivery of such child.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0177)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0177)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB428ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB428ER)
3. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB428ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB428)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101158D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
- **2020-01-27** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-14** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-18** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-19** VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Enrolled
- **2020-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-25** Signed by President
- **2020-02-28** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 28, 2020
- **2020-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 6, 2020
- **2020-03-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 177 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c8a7a93-3628-429b-8377-5565df8f64e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).