Costs, Fees, Salaries and Allowances Passed HB561 Compensation Board; salary increases for constitutional officers. Prohibits localities from using reimbursements from the Compensation Board for any purpose other than salary when the Compensation Board provides salary increase for constitutional officers and their assistants or deputies. Patron - Davies HB792 Electronic access to certain court records. Allows, instead of mandates, the clerk to charge a fee for electronic access to nonconfidential court records. The fee, if any, is to be established by the clerk or, as under current law, the local government agency that is providing computer support for such access. The fee is limited to an amount to cover the operational costs of providing access (e.g., maintenance, support, enhancements of the system used to provide access). The fee, if charged, is to be charged each user and paid into a special local nonreverting fund to be used for operating the system. Patron - Phillips HB808 Funding for deputy sheriffs. Increases the minimum number of deputies funded by the compensation board from one per 2,000 persons to one per 1,500 persons. This measure applies to counties without a police force. Patron - Woodrum HB949 Funding for deputy sheriffs. Increases the minimum number of deputies funded by the compensation board from one per 2,000 persons to one per 1,500 persons. This measure applies to counties without a police force. Patron - Armstrong HB1040 Funding for deputy sheriffs. Increases the minimum number of deputies funded by the compensation board from one per 2,000 persons to one per 1,500 persons. This measure applies to counties without a police department. Patron - Putney HB1128 Sheriffs; monthly report to Compensation Board. Provides for the sheriff to forward his monthly prisoner report to the Compensation Board within 10 business days of the date due instead of five days. Patron - Davies HB1141 Land records management. Continues the Task Force on Land Records Management through June 30, 1999, for the purpose of implementing the strategic and tactical plans consistent with the Final Report of the Task Force issued January 1, 1998. The membership shall remain the same. The bill also extends the sunset applicable to the Task Force to July 1, 2000. The bill contains an emergency clause. Patron - Phillips SB170 Funding for deputy sheriffs. Increases the minimum number of deputies funded by the compensation board from one per 2,000 persons to one per 1,500 persons. This measure applies to counties without a police force. Patron - Reynolds SB604 Funding for deputy sheriffs. Increases the minimum number of deputies funded by the compensation board from one per 2,000 persons to one per 1,500 persons. This measure applies to counties without a police force. Patron - Hawkins Failed HB214 Public law libraries; fees to support. Eliminates the cap of $4.00 on total fees charged in civil and criminal cases dedicated to public law library support and courthouse construction support and provides that fees may be charged in civil and criminal cases to support public law libraries. Currently, such fees may only be assessed in civil matters. Patron - Rust HB325 Definitions of costs recoverable by prevailing party in a lawsuit. Defines recoverable costs in a trial action to include filing fees, fees for service of process, fees for issuance of subpoenas and, in the discretion of the court, costs of the taking and transcribing of depositions. The bill also defines costs recoverable by the prevailing party on appeal to include costs of copies of transcripts, briefs, appendices and petitions for rehearing. The bill includes some technical amendments. Patron - Cranwell HB1250 Payment of jury costs in civil trials. Provides that whenever a civil action in which a trial by jury has been demanded is settled by the parties at such a time that the clerk is unable to prevent the summonsing of the jury, the clerk shall apportion the costs equally among the parties, unless the court orders otherwise. Patron - Drake SB68 Law library assessment. Expands the provision authorizing a maximum four-dollar assessment for local law libraries to include criminal and traffic cases (previously assessed on civil cases only), and removes the four-dollar ceiling for those localities which have both a law library fee and a courthouse maintenance fee. Patron - Gartlan SB320 Fee for courthouse maintenance, renovation, and construction. Increases the amount of the courthouse maintenance, construction, and renovation fee which localities may assess in civil, criminal, and traffic cases from two to four dollars and eliminates the cap (currently four dollars) on the total that may be assessed for this fee and the law library fee in civil cases. Patron - Quayle SB406 Number of deputies serving as correctional officers. Requires the Compensation Board to fix the number of full-time deputies who are primarily correctional officers based on the jail's average annual inmate population over the preceding three years. Patron - Reynolds SB612 Attorney's fees for violation of certain fundamental rights. Allows attorney's fees in cases where the court finds that the Commonwealth, a locality, or agency of either deprives persons of certain inalienable rights, including state action which discriminates on the basis of race, religion, or sex or violates the fundamental right and duty of a parent to direct the upbringing and education of a child. The bill includes exceptions for state action in certain quasi-criminal actions such as habeus corpus, administrative license revocation, etc. Patron - Martin Carried Over HB988 Attorneys' fees; civil rights violations by Commonwealth. Allows a plaintiff attorneys' fees against the Commonwealth if a court finds that the Commonwealth deprived any person of his due process or equal protection guarantees and specifically includes any action on the part of the government which (i) discriminates against any person on the basis of his race, religion, or gender, or (ii) violates the fundamental right and duty of a parent to direct the upbringing and education of the parent's child. Patron - McEachin SB279 Compensation and expenses of clerks of court. Allows clerks and the localities they serve to enter into an agreement whereby the localities would take over responsibility for all costs of the office and all clerk's fees would go to the locality. The bill would also take the local portion of the Technology Trust Fund out of the control of the Compensation Board. The Compensation Board must receive notice of the agreement. Patron - Barry SB405 Funding for additional courtroom security officers. Requires the Commonwealth to pay a portion of the salaries of courtroom security officers required to be hired by a circuit court judge, above the number of courtroom security officers fixed by the Compensation Board. The Commonwealth's portion of the salaries of these officers will be based on guidelines established by circuit court judges. Patron - Reynolds SB444 Felony fees. Establishes a fixed felony fee ($428) and a fixed revocation fee ($131) to be paid by convicted felons and those whose suspended sentences or probations have been revoked. These fees are intended to replace smaller fees collected by the clerks for various funds upon conviction of a felony. Fractional shares of the fixed fees will be paid over to the various funds. Patron - Norment < PREVIOUS | CONTENTS | NEXT >