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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW); transitional child care."
description: "Allows VIEW participants whose Temporary Assistance for Needy Families financial assistance is terminated to receive child care assistance for up to 12 months after termination if the individual is enrolled in an accredited public institution of higher education or other postsecondary school licensed or certified by the Board of Education or the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and is taking courses as part of a curriculum that leads to a postsecondary credential, such as a degree or an industry-recognized credential, certification, or license. Under current law, such child care assistance is only available if it enables the individual to work. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1871"
citation: "Virginia HB 1871 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerrauld C. \"Jay\" Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-03"
last_action: "2019-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81f0f984-a57c-4424-9188-0140e6af75b2"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1871"
source_hash: "aa1b8fc18cc5af990a7db93da8e551d0eec9ea8b899fdb4476c4ce31cf3579c3"
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 HB 1871 (2019) — Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare (VIEW); transitional child care.
Allows VIEW participants whose Temporary Assistance for Needy Families financial assistance is terminated to receive child care assistance for up to 12 months after termination if the individual is enrolled in an accredited public institution of higher education or other postsecondary school licensed or certified by the Board of Education or the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and is taking courses as part of a curriculum that leads to a postsecondary credential, such as a degree or an industry-recognized credential, certification, or license. Under current law, such child care assistance is only available if it enables the individual to work. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0166)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0166)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1871ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1871ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101902D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1871)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **381** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **220** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **100** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **141** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **8611** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **210** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — primary (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101902D `introduction`
- **2019-01-03** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2019-01-22** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (86-Y 11-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 166 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81f0f984-a57c-4424-9188-0140e6af75b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).