Virginia House Bill 2015 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 27 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-03-27 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Exemption from creditor process; bankruptcy proceedings. Makes several changes to articles that may be exempted from creditor process: (i) removes the one-gun limit, though the $3,000 cap remains the same; (ii) removes the one-car limit, though the $6,000 cap remains the same; (iii) allows those portions of a tax refund or governmental payment attributable to the federal Child Tax Credit or the Earned Income Credit to be exempted; (iv) allows unpaid spousal or child support to be exempted; and (v) extends the exemption from creditor process to spousal and child support, to the extent reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and any dependent of the debtor.

Creditor process; bankruptcy proceeding exemptions.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2015-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N) (Y: 39 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-18 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N) (Y: 11 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-03 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-01-28 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-01-26 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 1-N) (Y: 9 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-27		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0686)
2015-03-27		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 686 (effective 7/1/15)
2015-02-27		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
2015-02-27	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/27/15
2015-02-26	Senate	Signed by President
2015-02-26	House	Signed by Speaker
2015-02-26	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2015ER)
2015-02-26	House	Enrolled
2015-02-23	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 1-N)
2015-02-23	Senate	Read third time
2015-02-20	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-18	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 2-N)
2015-02-04	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-02-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2015-02-03	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2015-02-03	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2015-02-02	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2015H1
2015-02-02	House	Committee substitute agreed to 15104324D-H1
2015-02-02	House	Read second time
2015-01-30	House	Read first time
2015-01-28	House	Committee substitute printed 15104324D-H1
2015-01-28	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
2015-01-26	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 1-N)
2015-01-20	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2015-01-14	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-01-14	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100444D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+HB2015
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB2015+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB2015H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+HB2015ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0686+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+H0802V0046+HB2015
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+H08V0063+HB2015
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+HV1816+HB2015
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S03V0267+HB2015
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0683HB2015+HB2015
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0729HB2015+HB2015