SB 1667 Virginia Senate · 2019 Regular Session

Child support; nonpayment, amount of arrearage paid, suspension of driver's license.

Summary
Provides that an individual who is delinquent in child support payments or has failed to comply with a subpoena, summons, or warrant relating to paternity or child support proceedings is entitled to a judicial hearing if he makes a written request within 30 days from service of a notice of intent to suspend or renew his driver's license. Current law provides such an entitlement if such request is made within 10 days from such notice. The bill further allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew a driver's license or terminate a license suspension imposed on an individual if such individual has reached an agreement with the Department of Social Services to satisfy the child support payment delinquency within a 15-year period, an increase of five years over the period allowed under current law, and has made at least one payment of at least five percent of the total delinquency or $600, whichever is less, as opposed to whichever is greater under current law, under such agreement. The bill further provides that, where such a repayment agreement has been entered into and such an individual has failed to comply with such agreement, the Department of Motor Vehicles shall suspend or refuse to renew such individual's driver's license until it has received certification from the Department of Social Services that such individual has entered into a subsequent agreement to pay within a period of 10 years, an increase of three years over the period allowed under current law, and has paid the lesser amount, as opposed to greater amount under current law, of at least one payment of $1,200 or seven percent, as opposed to five percent under current law, of the current delinquency. The bill provides that an individual who fails to comply with such a subsequent agreement may enter into a new agreement if such individual has made a payment in the lesser amount, as opposed to the greater amount under current law, of $1,800 or 10 percent, as opposed to five percent under current law, and agrees to a repayment schedule of not more than seven years, which is consistent with the timeframe provided by the current law.
Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Jan 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2019
Governor
Introduced Jan 10, 2019 Last action Feb 11, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jan 31, 2019

How they voted

340
Passed
Total votes 34
Jan 31, 2019
D Democratic14
14 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican20
20 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
12
Key actions
3
Committee
3
Amendments
1
Feb 11, 2019
Lower · Passed
Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 11, 2019
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended
lower
Feb 11, 2019
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 31, 2019
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Jan 10, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
Jan 10, 2019
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 19103983D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
RR
Rosalyn R. Dance
DDemocratic
VA
16