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type: "Bill"
title: "Child support, unpaid; priority of debts to be paid from decedent's assets."
description: "Prioritizes debts owed for child support arrearages over debts and taxes due to localities and other, unenumerated claims against the estate of a decedent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 815"
citation: "Virginia SB 815 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Relations", "Wills", "Trusts", "and Fiduciaries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Surovell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-11-02"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26224aaf-9544-404f-8a60-fac5ec25e6ba"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB815"
source_hash: "1ed580c70cc2653c276452a21442e6ac5c718c68b10d978929184fbc864bb5d0"
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 815 (2017) — Child support, unpaid; priority of debts to be paid from decedent's assets.
Prioritizes debts owed for child support arrearages over debts and taxes due to localities and other, unenumerated claims against the estate of a decedent.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0591)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB815ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB815ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100570D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB815)
4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17100570D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB815E)
## Votes
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-11-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100570D `introduction`
- **2016-11-02** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Reading of amendments waived
- **2017-01-30** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-01-30** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB815E
- **2017-01-30** Printed as engrossed 17100570D-E
- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 591 (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/26224aaf-9544-404f-8a60-fac5ec25e6ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).