The Civil Subcommittee advanced multiple bills on domestic relations, court modernization, and civil procedure while hotly debating two contested measures: HB 440, which passed 5-3 to Appropriations amid $88 million fiscal concerns, and HB 901 expanding Virginia's Red Flag law, whose outcome remained unclear at adjournment. Several bills were carried over to 2027 for further work.
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Delegate Kilgore argued the bill lacks criteria for judges to assess good faith effort by obligors and that the retroactive subsection four would benefit those with large arrears without any accountability, stating he has seen licenses threatened prompt immediate payment of support. Delegate Ballard called retroactivity 'a non starter' and raised an $88 million fiscal impact on TANF and the Virginia Trauma Center Fund. Delegate Meta responded that criteria are included in the bill, that the $88 million predated the amendments, and that those amounts are not being collected anyway because obligors lack income.
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“The data is clear about why more than 70% of past due child support are owed by non custodial parents earning $10,000 or less per year. In many cases this is not willful non compliance, it's a lack of income.”
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Sign in to subscribeCall this meeting of the Courts of Justice Civil subcommittee to order. Members will indicate their presence on the electronic voting board. One more person to hit. Yes. There we go. The court will close the roll. We have a quorum so we can go ahead and do business. Delegate Delaney. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Committee. I have House Bill 1235, and I do have a substitute. Is there a motion on the substitute? Second moving. And second, we adopt the substitute as many favorite motion say aye, as opposed. The substitute is before us. Delgad Delaney. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the substitute applies to the requirement of online payment options that clerks would with such systems that already are set up for restitution and just restitution. Over the development of this bill, we learned that most of our clerks of the circuit court are utilizing systems that are hosted by the office of the Executive Secretary, and they don't have the power to turn those functions on or off. However, the ability to accept restitution is available, but not uniformly utilized across the Commonwealth. So stakeholder groups have agreed with this substitute. It's appropriate to…
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