republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-451.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	Juvenile and domestic relations district court; award of attorney fees and costs.	Juvenile and domestic relations district court;award of attorney fees. Permits a juvenile and domestic relationsdistrict court judge to take all relevant factors, in addition tothe relative financial ability of the parties, into considerationwhen awarding attorney fees and costs.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 451	Virginia SB 451 (2020)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Surovell	3	23	6	2020-01-07	2020-03-06	openstates	ocd-bill/412d5dd1-779f-463b-bcd8-a7ee5d6d9d10	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB451	3f1a00fe35527e6a388ed706929b04b577c34b871b00150a5dde1a24bc22c1e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 451 (2020) — Juvenile and domestic relations district court; award of attorney fees and costs.

Juvenile and domestic relations district court;award of attorney fees. Permits a juvenile and domestic relationsdistrict court judge to take all relevant factors, in addition tothe relative financial ability of the parties, into considerationwhen awarding attorney fees and costs.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0185) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB451ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB451ER) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

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 20102609D 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 185 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/412d5dd1-779f-463b-bcd8-a7ee5d6d9d10. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).