republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-105.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Best interests of the child; history of child abuse and acts of violence, etc.	Best interests of the child; history of child abuse and acts of violence, force, or threat. Provides that any history of child abuse and acts of violence, force, or threat that occurred no earlier than 10 years prior to the filing of a petition for custody or visitation of a child shall be considered by a court in determining the best interests of a child. This bill is identical to HB 861.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 105	Virginia SB 105 (2020)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	6	39	9	2019-12-08	2020-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/9b1f5a29-423a-4df2-b0fe-a8cd68655603	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB105	eef7b8bfb10767c270ae24c4b810aee3186b2522be35f55798baf7e2d4e3b89d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 105 (2020) — Best interests of the child; history of child abuse and acts of violence, etc.

Best interests of the child; history of child abuse and acts of violence, force, or threat. Provides that any history of child abuse and acts of violence, force, or threat that occurred no earlier than 10 years prior to the filing of a petition for custody or visitation of a child shall be considered by a court in determining the best interests of a child. This bill is identical to HB 861.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1075) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB105ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB105H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB105E (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB105E (committee substitute) — source
6. SB105S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute rejected by Senate (5-Y 34-N) — 5–34 (fail) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with amendments (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102015D introduction
• 2019-12-08 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-01-27 Reported from Judiciary with amendments (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-29 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-01-29 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-01-29 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB105E
• 2020-01-29 Printed as engrossed 20102015D-E
• 2020-01-30 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-14 Committee substitute printed 20108233D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-19 Committee substitute agreed to 20108233D-H1
• 2020-02-19 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB105H1
• 2020-02-19 Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-19 VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-21 House substitute rejected by Senate (5-Y 34-N)
• 2020-02-24 House insisted on substitute
• 2020-02-24 House requested conference committee
• 2020-02-26 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-26 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-02-27 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-03-05 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-03-05 Conference substitute printed 20109727D-S1
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-07 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-18 Enrolled
• 2020-03-18 Signed by President
• 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
• 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1075 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b1f5a29-423a-4df2-b0fe-a8cd68655603. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).