Virginia House Bill 231 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 1 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-01 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Augmented estate; elective share of surviving spouse. Revises provisions of the Code related to the elective share of the surviving spouse of a decedent dying on or after January 1, 2017, to track revisions made to the Uniform Probate Code by the Uniform Law Commission. The bill calculates the elective share of the surviving spouse as a graduated percentage, taking into account both spouses' assets and the length of marriage. Under current law, the surviving spouse is awarded 50% of the estate if there were no children and 33.3% if there were children. The bill also clarifies the process by which the elective share is to be claimed and provides instructions for the valuation of assets to encourage uniformity in the method of calculation of the elective share.

Augmented estate; elective share of surviving spouse.

Del. James Leftwich [R]

2016-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-19 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-02 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 23 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-25 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-01		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187)
2016-03-01		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 187 (effective 7/1/16)
2016-02-25		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 3, 2016
2016-02-25	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/25/16
2016-02-25	Senate	Signed by President
2016-02-24	House	Signed by Speaker
2016-02-24	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB231ER)
2016-02-24	House	Enrolled
2016-02-22	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2016-02-22	Senate	Read third time
2016-02-19	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2016-02-17	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
2016-02-03	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2016-02-02	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-02-02	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-02-01	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB231H1
2016-02-01	House	Committee substitute agreed to 16104739D-H1
2016-02-01	House	Read second time
2016-01-29	House	Read first time
2016-01-27	House	Committee substitute printed 16104739D-H1
2016-01-27	House	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2016-01-25	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)
2016-01-14	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
2015-12-29	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2015-12-29	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100843D

SB181 (Same As) 2016-03-07 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0269)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
64	2	1805	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	2022	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	300	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	308.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	308.17	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	311	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	317	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	500	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	502	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	556	(n/a)	See Bill Text
64	2	632	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB231
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB231+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB231H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB231ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+CHAP0187+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H0802V0027+HB0231
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H08V0006+HB0231
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+HV0180+HB0231
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S03V0239+HB0231
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0514HB0231+HB0231
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0524HB0231+HB0231