Courts of Record

Passed

P HB1706

Fees collected by clerks of circuit courts; authorization to use funds for office expenses. Provides that court clerks shall use the fees paid for copying to recoup the costs of providing the copies, with the balance of the funds paid to the Commonwealth. Funds sufficient to recoup the cost of making copies shall be deposited with the locality, which shall in turn appropriate funds to support copying costs. Such costs shall include lease and maintenance agreements, but shall not include salaries or related benefits. This bill incorporates HB 1894.
Patron - Kilgore

P HB1994

Designation of courtrooms. Restores a provision, repealed in a title revision, which allows the chief judges of the Twenty-first (Martinsville, Henry, and Patrick) and the Twenty-third (Roanoke, Salem, and Roanoke County) Judicial Circuits to designate particular courtrooms within their respective circuits as civil or criminal courtrooms.
Patron - Griffith

P HB2287

Courts of record; how jurors paid. Allows jurors to be paid in cash or by electronic transfer.
Patron - Brink

P HB2533

Exercise of appointive powers by circuit court judges. Removes the burden of each judge of a circuit having to sign an order of appointment and allows the chief judge, or his designee, to do so on behalf of all the judges of the circuit.
Patron - Melvin

P HB2662

Number of circuit court judges. Creates a new circuit court judgeship in the 28th Judicial Circuit (Bristol, Washington, Smyth). This bill is identical to SB 1167 and incorporates HB 2861.
Patron - McDonnell

P SB902

Technology Trust Fund Fee. Prohibits, beginning July 1, 2006, transfers from the Technology Trust Fund Fee for purposes not specifically enumerated in the law, including transfers to the general fund.
Patron - Norment

P SB1157

Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; confidentiality; Freedom of Information Act. Exempts the Commission from the Freedom of Information Act and also requires that ethical advice given to a judge by an attorney employed by the Commission and any attendant records be kept confidential. The bill allows the Commission to share such advice, without identifying the judge, with the judicial ethics advisory committee established by the Supreme Court.
Patron - Stolle

P SB1167

Number of circuit court judges. Creates a new circuit court judgeship in the 28th Judicial Circuit (Bristol, Washington, Smyth). This bill is identical to HB 2662.
Patron - Stolle

P SB1341

Executive Secretary to the Supreme Court of Virginia; qualifications. Removes the requirement that the executive secretary meet the qualifications of a judge of a court of record and allows, instead, the justices of the Supreme Court to prescribe any qualifications.
Patron - Stolle

Failed

F HB1578

Payment for services of retired judges. Increases the daily allowance for retired judges sitting as substitute judges from $200 to $250.
Patron - Reese

F HB1774

Restrictions on retired or former justices and judges. Restricts a retired or former justice or judge, upon leaving service whether by retirement, removal, failure to be reelected, or voluntary separation, from being employed by any private business or legal entity that is involved in class action litigation in which he was directly involved as a justice or judge. This prohibition expires at the end of the fifth year following retirement or separation from service.
Patron - Purkey

F HB1894

Fees collected by clerks of circuit courts; authorization to use funds for office expenses. Allows the clerk to use fees paid for copying to recoup the costs of providing the copies, with the balance of the funds paid to the Commonwealth. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1706.
Patron - Carrico

F HB1959

Fees for court copies. Provides that the fees charged to persons with incomes at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty line for copies of court documents shall not exceed $0.10 per page.
Patron - Jones, D.C.

F HB1970

Designation of judges to hold courts and assist other judges. Prohibits a judge who believes it is improper, in his opinion, to preside at a trial to propose, suggest, or recommend to the Chief Justice, directly or indirectly, which judge should be designated in his place.
Patron - Cox

F HB2208

Additional fees in certain courts. Requires the additional fees currently collected on civil case filings to be deposited into the criminal fund for disbursement for criminal indigent defense. The additional fees currently go to Legal Aid through the Virginia State Bar.
Patron - Marrs

F HB2261

Ex parte examination of witnesses or evidence by judge prohibited. Provides that, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, no judge shall examine a witness, potential witness, or any evidence without notice to, and an opportunity to be heard by, all parties to a proceeding or their counsel.
Patron - Bell

F HB2768

Courthouse construction. Provides additional funding for courthouse construction by increasing the maximum assessment for costs in civil, criminal, and traffic cases.
Patron - Nutter

F HB2825

Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; due process. Requires the rules adopted by the Commission to afford each judge due process protections in investigations and hearings.
Patron - Joannou

F SB828

Money under control of the court; audits. Allows the use of a certified public accountant, instead of the Auditor of Public Accounts, to audit money held by clerks of court.
Patron - Mims

F SB830

Clerks' fees; what is taxed as costs. Clarifies what court costs are taxable in an attempt to make statewide practice more uniform.
Patron - Mims

F SB1124

Modification of sentencing guidelines for methamphetamine. Provides that for any conviction involving any substance that contains any quantity of methamphetamine, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers, the discretionary sentencing guidelines applicable to cocaine shall be used.
Patron - Obenshain

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