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| Bill | Child support; reasonable cost of health care coverage. | Child support; reasonable cost of health care coverage. Modifies the definition of "reasonable cost" for purposes of health care coverage in child support arrangements by capping the maximum amount to five percent of the gross income of the parent responsible for providing health care coverage. Under current law, such costs are capped at five percent of the parents' combined gross income. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020 | HB 637 | Virginia HB 637 (2020) |
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Virginia HB 637 (2020) — Child support; reasonable cost of health care coverage.
Child support; reasonable cost of health care coverage. Modifies the definition of "reasonable cost" for purposes of health care coverage in child support arrangements by capping the maximum amount to five percent of the gross income of the parent responsible for providing health care coverage. Under current law, such costs are capped at five percent of the parents' combined gross income.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0213) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB637ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (HB637) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 6-N 1-A) — 8–6 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N) — 5–1 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment (34-Y 4-N) — 34–4 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — primary (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102461D
introduction - 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2020-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB637)
- 2020-01-14 Assigned HWI sub: Social Services
referral-committee - 2020-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N)
- 2020-01-21 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-01-23 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-01-24 Passed by for the day
- 2020-01-27 Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- 2020-01-27 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2020-01-31 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-02-04 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-02-05 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2020-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-02-06 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2020-02-07 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2020-02-14 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 6-N 1-A)
committee-passage - 2020-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-18 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-02-18 Reading of amendment waived
- 2020-02-18 Amendment by Senator McDougle agreed to
amendment-passage - 2020-02-18 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2020-02-18 Passed Senate with amendment (34-Y 4-N)
passage - 2020-02-20 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-02-20 Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-20 VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
- 2020-02-25 Enrolled
- 2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB637ER)
- 2020-02-25 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-02-26 Signed by President
- 2020-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
- 2020-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
- 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 213 (effective 7/1/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/30a43052-3a20-4ee2-ad4f-495051d196e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).