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type: "Bill"
title: "Child support; assignment of tax credits."
description: "Child support; assignment of tax credits. Providesthat the court may assign a party in a child support proceeding theright to claim any credits resulting from the income tax dependencyexemption for any child or children of the parties for federal andstate income tax purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 434"
citation: "Virginia SB 434 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Surovell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db5c9ea7-7073-470f-b54c-d6c5f6f61886"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB434"
source_hash: "f5b2f70342232accf0d0bdf94ec005c46884b54c441c32ea518af2e99d1da3be"
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 434 (2020) — Child support; assignment of tax credits.
Child support; assignment of tax credits. Providesthat the court may assign a party in a child support proceeding theright to claim any credits resulting from the income tax dependencyexemption for any child or children of the parties for federal andstate income tax purposes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0192)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0192)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB434ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB434)
3. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB434ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB434ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100817D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** 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 (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2020-02-11** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-14** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-18** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-19** VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Enrolled
- **2020-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-02-25** Signed by President
- **2020-02-28** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 28, 2020
- **2020-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 6, 2020
- **2020-03-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 192 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db5c9ea7-7073-470f-b54c-d6c5f6f61886`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).