Virginia House Bill 123 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-01-23 - House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Specialty court dockets. Provides that any court may establish specialty criminal dockets to address the specialized needs of similarly situated defendants. Such dockets may be authorized by the chief judge of the respective court. The bill requires that the court may utilize only the resources already existing and available to the court in the community notwithstanding the source of funding and that additional funding for such court dockets or the creation of a formal specialized court shall require the approval of the General Assembly.

Specialty criminal court dockets; court may establish to address specialized needs of defendants.

Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-23		House: Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice vote
2012-01-04		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2012-01-04		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12103257D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	5.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB123
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB123+hil