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Bill	Deferred or installment payment agreements; universal minimum payments.	Deferred or installment payment agreements; minimum payments. Provides that if the defendant requests to enter into an installment agreement, the court may offer installment payments of (i) $25 per month, or a higher amount, depending upon a defendant's ability to pay or (ii) less than $25 per month if the defendant is determined to be indigent.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 1661	Virginia HB 1661 (2025)	bill		enacted	Michael J. Jones	8	42	10	2025-01-03	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/85be06b2-eecc-430e-8726-f13a6fbd2324	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1661	9e749bfd8d0e71bed5e28b8b336a73c7d5b660361ce11c91914aa28242fff7fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1661 (2025) — Deferred or installment payment agreements; universal minimum payments.

Deferred or installment payment agreements; minimum payments. Provides that if the defendant requests to enter into an installment agreement, the court may offer installment payments of (i) $25 per month, or a higher amount, depending upon a defendant's ability to pay or (ii) less than $25 per month if the defendant is determined to be indigent.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Amendments (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. Finance and Appropriations Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
7. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 7-N) — 8–7 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (63-Y 36-N) — 63–36 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (64-Y 33-N) — 64–33 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (32-Y 2-N) — 32–2 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N 2-A) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Appropriations (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michael J. Jones — primary (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101160D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-17 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and referred to Appropriations (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-17 Committee substitute printed 25105150D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-18 Assigned Approps sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 1-N)
• 2025-01-22 Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-27 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1661)
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-27 Appropriations Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by House - committee substitute as amended substitution
• 2025-01-27 Printed as engrossed 25105150D-EH1
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed House (63-Y 36-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-29 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1661)
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N 2-A) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Committee substitute printed 25107306D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-13 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-13 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1661)
• 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-14 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-14 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-14 Passed Senate with substitute (32-Y 2-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 Senate substitute agreed to by House (64-Y 33-N) substitution
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1661ER) passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-23 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1661)
• 2025-02-23 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-05 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-05 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 545 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85be06b2-eecc-430e-8726-f13a6fbd2324. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).