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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW); transitional child care."
description: "Allows VIEW participants whose Temporary Assistance for Needy Families financial assistance is terminated to receive child care assistance for up to 12 months after termination if the individual is enrolled in an accredited public institution of higher education or other postsecondary school licensed or certified by the Board of Education or the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and is taking courses as part of a curriculum that leads to a postsecondary credential, such as a degree or an industry-recognized credential, certification, or license. Under current law, such child care assistance is only available if it enables the individual to work. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1145"
citation: "Virginia SB 1145 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-12-31"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e44d1dd8-3553-40e2-be0e-a1b78a9be10d"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1145"
source_hash: "6793c995bbadb78e8d49fdab0e22ee57064673576883973883c9dbcfde34a825"
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 1145 (2019) — Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW); transitional child care.
Allows VIEW participants whose Temporary Assistance for Needy Families financial assistance is terminated to receive child care assistance for up to 12 months after termination if the individual is enrolled in an accredited public institution of higher education or other postsecondary school licensed or certified by the Board of Education or the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and is taking courses as part of a curriculum that leads to a postsecondary credential, such as a degree or an industry-recognized credential, certification, or license. Under current law, such child care assistance is only available if it enables the individual to work. 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 (SB1145ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1145ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101901D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1145)
## Votes
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **121** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **160** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate — **381** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed House — **8512** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-12-31** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101901D `introduction`
- **2018-12-31** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Passed House (85-Y 12-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled
- **2019-02-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-19** Signed by President
- **2019-02-20** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2019
- **2019-02-20** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 218 (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/e44d1dd8-3553-40e2-be0e-a1b78a9be10d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).