Bill Text: VA HB2037 | 2023 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Public defender; supplementing compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-24 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467) [HB2037 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2023-HB2037-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §19.2-163.01:1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§19.2-163.01:1. Supplementing compensation of public defender.
A. The governing body of any county or city may supplement the compensation of the public defender or any of his deputies or employees above the compensation fixed by the executive director, in such amounts as it may deem expedient. Such additional compensation shall be wholly payable from the funds of any such county or city.
B. Due to the privileged and protected nature of the attorney-client relationship and the statutory scope of representation provided in §§19.2-157 and 19.2-163.3, no county or city providing a supplement to compensation under this section shall place any condition or requirement upon the receipt of such funds.
C. Funds provided by any county or city under this section
shall may be paid directly to the Indigent Defense Commission or
to the employees with notice to the Indigent Defense Commission of any
amount so provided. The Commission shall provide the supplementing funds
directly to employees in combination with the compensation fixed by the
executive director.
