Virginia Senate Bill 561 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2022-02-02 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (11-Y 4-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Attorney Disciplinary Commission; established. Establishes the Virginia Attorney Disciplinary Commission in the legislative branch of state government for the purpose of holding disciplinary hearings initiated by the Virginia State Bar against an attorney for a violation of the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct or Unauthorized Practice Rules that would be the basis for a sanction to be imposed against such attorney and grants the Commission the power to hold issue sanctions against such attorney. The bill transfers any existing authority to discipline attorneys from the Virginia State Bar to the Commission.

Virginia Attorney Disciplinary Commission; established, report.

Sen. John Petersen [D]

2022-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (11-Y 4-N) (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-02	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (11-Y 4-N)
2022-01-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2022-01-12	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104232D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
17	1	406	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	455	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3909	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3910	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3913	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3915	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3934.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3935	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3938	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3938.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB561
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB561+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S03V0107+SB0561