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Bill	Child support; nonpayment, amount of arrearage paid, suspension of driver's license.	Provides that an individual who is delinquent in child support payments or has failed to comply with a subpoena, summons, or warrant relating to paternity or child support proceedings is entitled to a judicial hearing if he makes a written request within 30 days from service of a notice of intent to suspend or renew his driver's license. Current law provides such an entitlement if such request is made within 10 days from such notice. The bill further allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew a driver's license or terminate a license suspension imposed on an individual if such individual has reached an agreement with the Department of Social Services to satisfy the child support payment delinquency within a 10-year period and has made at least one payment of at least five percent of the total delinquency or $600, whichever is less, as opposed to whichever is greater under current law, under such agreement. The bill further provides that, where such a repayment agreement has been entered into and such an individual has failed to comply with such agreement, the Department of Motor Vehicles shall suspend or refuse to renew such individual's driver's license until it has received certification from the Department of Social Services that such individual has entered into a subsequent agreement to pay within a period of seven years and has paid the lesser amount, as opposed to greater amount under current law, of at least one payment of $1,200 or seven percent, as opposed to five percent under current law, of the current delinquency. The bill provides that an individual who fails to comply with such a subsequent agreement may enter into a new agreement if such individual has made a payment in the lesser amount, as opposed to the greater amount under current law, of $1,800 or 10 percent, as opposed to five percent under current law, and agrees to a repayment schedule of not more than seven years, which is consistent with the timeframe provided by the current law. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2059	Virginia HB 2059 (2019)	bill	Domestic Relations Motor Vehicles	enacted	Betsy B. Carr	7	29	10	2019-01-07	2019-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/332dd395-2f5a-4c62-bc54-33df61761516	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2059	f1c25fe92d66cab059967f086292ba64f3b416c219d7c0dbc86ce7f7845dd2fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2059 (2019) — Child support; nonpayment, amount of arrearage paid, suspension of driver's license.

Provides that an individual who is delinquent in child support payments or has failed to comply with a subpoena, summons, or warrant relating to paternity or child support proceedings is entitled to a judicial hearing if he makes a written request within 30 days from service of a notice of intent to suspend or renew his driver's license. Current law provides such an entitlement if such request is made within 10 days from such notice. The bill further allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew a driver's license or terminate a license suspension imposed on an individual if such individual has reached an agreement with the Department of Social Services to satisfy the child support payment delinquency within a 10-year period and has made at least one payment of at least five percent of the total delinquency or $600, whichever is less, as opposed to whichever is greater under current law, under such agreement. The bill further provides that, where such a repayment agreement has been entered into and such an individual has failed to comply with such agreement, the Department of Motor Vehicles shall suspend or refuse to renew such individual's driver's license until it has received certification from the Department of Social Services that such individual has entered into a subsequent agreement to pay within a period of seven years and has paid the lesser amount, as opposed to greater amount under current law, of at least one payment of $1,200 or seven percent, as opposed to five percent under current law, of the current delinquency. The bill provides that an individual who fails to comply with such a subsequent agreement may enter into a new agreement if such individual has made a payment in the lesser amount, as opposed to the greater amount under current law, of $1,800 or 10 percent, as opposed to five percent under current law, and agrees to a repayment schedule of not more than seven years, which is consistent with the timeframe provided by the current law. 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 (CHAP0284) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2059ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101815D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19101815D-E (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendments — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate amendments rejected by House — 3–94 (fail) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendments — 37–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
• David J. Toscano — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
• Rosalyn R. Dance — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101815D introduction
• 2019-01-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-01-18 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2019-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-01-30 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2019-01-30 Engrossed by House as amended HB2059E
• 2019-01-30 Printed as engrossed 19101815D-E
• 2019-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-01 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Reading of amendments waived
• 2019-02-11 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2019-02-11 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2019-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-13 Senate amendments rejected by House (3-Y 94-N)
• 2019-02-15 Senate requested conference committee
• 2019-02-18 House acceded to request
• 2019-02-18 Conferees appointed by House
• 2019-02-19 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2019-02-21 Amended by conference committee
• 2019-02-21 Conference report agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
• 2019-02-23 Enrolled
• 2019-02-23 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-23 Signed by President
• 2019-03-04 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
• 2019-03-04 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 284 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/332dd395-2f5a-4c62-bc54-33df61761516. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).