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SENATE BILL NO. 1429 Offered January 15, 2009 A BILL to amend and reenact § 20-15 of the Code of Virginia, relating to marriage license tax; allocation to services for children and youth exposed to sexual or domestic violence. ---------- Patron-- Whipple ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 20-15. Tax on license.

On each marriage license issued under § 20-14 there is hereby levied a license tax of $20 $35, which tax shall be collected by the clerk when the license is issued and accounted for as in the case of other state taxes collected by him. Ten dollars of this license tax shall be allocated to the Virginia Department of Social Services for the purpose of providing services to victims of domestic violence and ten dollars shall be allocated to the Virginia Department of Social Services for grants to provide services to children and youth who have been exposed to sexual and/or domestic violence.