Virginia Senate Bill 540 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-30 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Modification of spousal support; retirement age. Provides that for the purposes of petitioning the court for a modification of spousal support, the payor spouse's reaching full retirement age pursuant to the federal Social Security Act shall be considered a material change in circumstances. The bill provides a list of factors that shall be considered by the court in considering modification based on the payor spouse's reaching full retirement age. A request for modification based on the payor spouse's retirement age is available to any person subject to a spousal support order regardless of the date of the suit for initial setting of support or the date of entry of any such order or decree. The bill provides that in the court's consideration of a petition for modification for any reason, it shall consider the assets or property interest of each of the parties from the date of the support order and up to the time of the hearing on modification or termination and any income generated from the asset or property interest.

Spousal support; modification when person reaches retirement age.

Sen. Emmett Hanger [R]

2018-03-07 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-03-02 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-19 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-22 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-30		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583)
2018-03-30		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 583 (effective 7/1/18)
2018-03-20		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
2018-03-20	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2018
2018-03-10	Senate	Signed by President
2018-03-09	House	Signed by Speaker
2018-03-09	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB540ER)
2018-03-09	Senate	Enrolled
2018-03-07	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2018-03-07	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2018-03-07	House	Read third time
2018-03-06	House	Read second time
2018-03-02	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 0-N)
2018-02-19	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
2018-02-15	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
2018-01-29	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-29	House	Read first time
2018-01-29	House	Placed on Calendar
2018-01-25	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2018-01-24	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2018-01-23	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2018-01-22	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
2018-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101737D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB540
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB540+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB540ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0583+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S03V0138+SB0540
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0107SB0540+SB0540
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0123SB0540+SB0540
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0802V0103+SB0540
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H08V0597+SB0540
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV1420+SB0540