---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; jurisdiction, specific findings of fact."
description: "Grants the juvenile and domestic relations district courts jurisdiction to make specific findings of fact required by state or federal law to enable a child to apply for or receive a state or federal benefit. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2679"
citation: "Virginia HB 2679 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts Not of Record"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcus B. Simon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c61ef4a-60ea-4cbe-a6ec-8c02b9bd75fc"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2679"
source_hash: "7dc84ffab27876fd22042c442c8b59e4ab511c40d50f9dc3a8fbc6580cd1f544"
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 2679 (2019) — Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; jurisdiction, specific findings of fact.

Grants the juvenile and domestic relations district courts jurisdiction to make specific findings of fact required by state or federal law to enable a child to apply for or receive a state or federal benefit. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0412)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0412)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2679ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2679ER)
3. **House: Conference substitute printed 19107571D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2679H1)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19103631D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2679)
5. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19107092D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2679S1)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- Senate insisted on substitute — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **13–1** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate substitute rejected by House 19107092D-S1 — **1–98** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by House — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marcus B. Simon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Presented and ordered printed 19103631D `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-01** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-02-18** Committee substitute agreed to 19107092D-S1
- **2019-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2679S1
- **2019-02-19** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Senate substitute rejected by House 19107092D-S1 (1-Y 98-N)
- **2019-02-20** Senate requested conference committee
- **2019-02-21** House acceded to request
- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by House
- **2019-02-21** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2019-02-22** Amended by conference committee
- **2019-02-22** Conference substitute printed 19107571D-H1
- **2019-02-22** Passed by temporarily
- **2019-02-22** Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- **2019-03-07** Enrolled
- **2019-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-03-09** Signed by President
- **2019-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- **2019-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 412 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c61ef4a-60ea-4cbe-a6ec-8c02b9bd75fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).