republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-2002.md

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Bill	Child support; health care coverage.	Child support; health care coverage. Provides that in any case in which a court enters an order directing the payment of spousal support in cases in which there are minor children that the parties have a mutual duty to support or any payment of child support or when the Department of Social Services issues an order directing the payment of child support, and when it appears that the gross income of a custodial parent of a dependent child is no more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, the court or the Department of Social Services shall notify the parties of the availability of medical assistance through the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security plan or other government sponsored coverage through the Department of Medical Assistance Services.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 2002	Virginia HB 2002 (2021)	bill		enacted	Ibraheem S. Samirah	5	41	9	2021-01-11	2021-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/02812553-fbea-4666-a157-d8cc1539c5c7	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2002	8c8e8661f60033684732d2be71d0c2d5371c0812d7783fc1a31da6ef00a9d513	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2002 (2021) — Child support; health care coverage.

Child support; health care coverage. Provides that in any case in which a court enters an order directing the payment of spousal support in cases in which there are minor children that the parties have a mutual duty to support or any payment of child support or when the Department of Social Services issues an order directing the payment of child support, and when it appears that the gross income of a custodial parent of a dependent child is no more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, the court or the Department of Social Services shall notify the parties of the availability of medical assistance through the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security plan or other government sponsored coverage through the Department of Medical Assistance Services.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0206 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21103825D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 21200036D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB2002ER (committee substitute) — source
5. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102612D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 1-N) — 97–1 (pass) · lower
• Referred from Courts of Justice — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N) — 3–2 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ibraheem S. Samirah — primary (person)
• Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102612D introduction
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2021-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB2002)
• 2021-01-19 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2021-01-22 Referred from Courts of Justice
• 2021-01-22 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions referral-committee
• 2021-01-23 Assigned HWI sub: Social Services referral-committee
• 2021-01-27 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (3-Y 2-N)
• 2021-01-28 Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-28 Committee substitute printed 21103825D-H1 substitution
• 2021-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 21103825D-H1
• 2021-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2002H1
• 2021-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB2002H1)
• 2021-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-02-03 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-10 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-10 Committee substitute printed 21200036D-S1 substitution
• 2021-02-10 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-15 Impact statement from DPB (HB2002S1)
• 2021-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-15 Reading of substitute waived
• 2021-02-15 Committee substitute agreed to 21200036D-S1
• 2021-02-15 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2002S1
• 2021-02-15 Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-17 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-17 Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200036D-S1 (98-Y 1-N)
• 2021-02-17 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 1-N)
• 2021-02-22 Enrolled
• 2021-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB2002ER)
• 2021-02-22 Signed by President
• 2021-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-25 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
• 2021-02-25 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 206 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/02812553-fbea-4666-a157-d8cc1539c5c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).