Virginia Senate Bill 939 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Passed on March 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-30 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Retired circuit court judges, Court of Appeals judges, and Supreme Court justices under recall; qualification by Committees for Courts of Justice. Requires that retired circuit court judges sitting as substitutes be found qualified every three years by the Senate and House Committees for Courts of Justice instead of authorized by the Chief Justice. The bill also removes the requirement that retired Court of Appeals judges and Supreme Court justices shall be recalled pursuant to ?§17.1-106. The bill provides that Court of Appeals judges and Supreme Court justices retired under the Judicial Retirement System (?§51.1-300 et seq.) shall be subject to recall with the consent of a majority of the members of the respective court. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2019.

Judges; retired from circuit court, etc., qualifications.

Sen. Richard Stuart [R]

2018-02-28 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-23 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) (Y: 18 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-21 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) (Y: 38 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-30		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0709)
2018-03-30		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 709 (effective 7/1/19)
2018-03-14		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
2018-03-14	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 14, 2018
2018-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2018-03-05	House	Signed by Speaker
2018-03-05	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB939ER)
2018-03-05	Senate	Enrolled
2018-02-28	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2018-02-28	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2018-02-28	House	Read third time
2018-02-27	House	Read second time
2018-02-23	House	Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N)
2018-02-21	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2018-02-20	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3
2018-02-14	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-02-14	House	Read first time
2018-02-14	House	Placed on Calendar
2018-02-07	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
2018-02-06	Senate	Printed as engrossed 18106490D-ES1
2018-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB939ES1
2018-02-06	Senate	Amendments by Senator Stuart agreed to
2018-02-06	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2018-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2018-02-05	Senate	Passed by for the day
2018-02-05	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 18106490D-S1
2018-02-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2018-02-05	Senate	Read second time
2018-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2018-01-31	Senate	Committee substitute printed 18106490D-S1
2018-01-31	Senate	Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
2018-01-19	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-19	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 18103874D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
17	1	106	(n/a)	See Bill Text
17	1	302	(n/a)	See Bill Text
17	1	401	(n/a)	See Bill Text
51	1	309	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB939
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB939+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB939S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB939ES1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB939ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0709+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S03V0233+SB0939
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0263SB0939+SB0939
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0346SB0939+SB0939
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H0803V0034+SB0939
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H08V0576+SB0939
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV1173+SB0939