Bill Text: VA HB2328 | 2017 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Persons allowed services without fees or costs; inability to pay on account of poverty, guidelines.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-02-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227) [HB2328 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-HB2328-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §17.1-606 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§17.1-606. Persons allowed services without fees or costs.
Any person, who is (i) a plaintiff in a civil
action in a court of the Commonwealth and a resident of this the
Commonwealth or (ii) a defendant in a civil action in a court of the
Commonwealth, and who is on account of his poverty is unable
to pay fees or costs, may be allowed by a court to sue or defend a suit
therein, without paying fees or costs; whereupon he shall have, from any
counsel whom the court may assign him, and from all officers, all needful
services and process, without any fees, except what may be included in the
costs recovered from the opposite party. In determining a person's inability
to pay fees or costs on account of his poverty, the court shall consider the
factors set forth in subsection B of §19.2-159.