| VA | SB23 | Veto | Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Requires 2/3 members present |
| VA | HB824 | Enroll
75% | Rate of fees; legal representation of indigent defendant. Limits the fees charged for the cost of court-appointed counsel or public defender representation to persons determined to be indigent to an amount no greater than the amount such person would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | SB115 | Veto | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB833 | Veto | Child abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB236 | Veto | Requests for reports of aggregated, nonconfidential case data; academic research. Allows a full-time faculty member of a baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth to request for the purposes of academic research, provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | HB1264 | Veto | Juvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; judicial discretion. Provides that any court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or guardian in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB803 | Veto | Expungement of juvenile court records. Provides that if a juvenile was adjudicated delinquent of a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult, other than certain felony offenses specified in the bill committed when such juvenile w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1420 | Veto | Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB266 | Pass | Custodial interrogation of a child; failure to comply with section; inadmissibility of statement. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer knowingly fails to comply with existing law regarding parental notification and contact prior to a custodial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 719 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB431 | Pass | Pro tempore judicial appointments; criminal background checks; financial disclosure. Requires that prior to an appointment as a pro tempore judge, a person submit his fingerprints for a national and Virginia criminal history record search, submit to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 723 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB460 | Pass | Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of admission of a minor to a willing mental health facility for inpatient treatment, the finding required to be made by a qualified evaluator that the minor appears...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 710 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB994 | Pass | Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage to be 18 years of age and eliminates the ability for a minor to be declared emancipated on the basis of the intent to marry. Legal age for marriage. Establishes the legal age of marriage t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 737 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB772 | Pass | Parental admission of minors for inpatient treatment. Clarifies that for the purposes of admission of a minor to a willing mental health facility for inpatient treatment, the finding required to be made by a qualified evaluator that the minor appears...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 695 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB310 | Pass | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district and circuit. Increases by one the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Twentieth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 525 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB710 | Pass | Maximum number of judges in each judicial district and circuit. Increases by one the maximum number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations district court judges in the Twentieth and Thirty-first Judicial Districts. The bill also increases by o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 606 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB398 | Pass | Protective orders; respondent to notify court of change of address. Requires the respondent against whom a protective order has been issued to notify the court in writing within seven days of any change of residence while such order is in effect, pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 594 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB893 | Pass | Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; multidisciplinary law offices or programs; report. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0428) |
| VA | SB637 | Pass | Collections of fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, etc.; duty of attorneys for the Commonwealth; consultation with clerk. Requires that at least 30 days prior to the execution of a contract with a private attorney or private collection agency to un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 518 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB268 | Pass | Juveniles; evidence of trafficking, sexual abuse, or rape by the alleged victim prior to or during the commission of the alleged offense; treatment and rehabilitation. Requires a juvenile and domestic relations district court, when determining whethe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0365) |
| VA | HB172 | Pass | Family or household member; definition; penalty. Adds to the definition of family or household member, for the purposes of definitions relating to juvenile and domestic relations district courts and multiple criminal and procedural statutes, an indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0273) |
| VA | SB211 | Pass | Violation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0118) |
| VA | HB895 | Pass | Violation of protective orders; venue. Allows a person to be prosecuted for a violation of a protective order charge in the jurisdiction where the party protected by the protective order resided at the time of such violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108) |
| VA | HB1114 | Pass | Penalties for failure to appear; exclusion. Excludes any person who is (i) incarcerated in any correctional facility or (ii) (a) detained in any state or federal facility or (b) in the custody of a law-enforcement officer at the time such person is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109) |
| VA | SB725 | Pass | Drug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0130) |
| VA | HB470 | Fail | Petition for child in need of services or in need of supervision. Authorizes a guardian ad litem representing a child to file a petition for such child alleging he is in need of services or in need of supervision. The bill also provides that if an in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | SB502 | Fail | Petitions in juvenile and domestic relations district court; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor residing in the same home as such parent from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, provided that the mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | HB294 | Pass | Protective order in case of family abuse; termination of temporary order of child support. Provides that when a court includes a temporary child support order with the issuance of a protective order in the case of family abuse, such temporary child s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026) |
| VA | HB934 | Pass | Small claims court; representation of certain entities. Adds limited liability companies and other legal or commercial entities to those parties that may have representation by an owner, a general partner, an officer, a member, or an employee of such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058) |
| VA | SB443 | Pass | Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0008) |
| VA | HB1317 | Pass | Public schools; transfer and management of scholastic records; disclosure of information in court notices; transfer of disciplinary records; requirements. Requires the superintendent of any school division to, upon receiving notification of the dispo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0061) |
| VA | HB292 | Pass | Drug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) |
| VA | HR345 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR345ER) |
| VA | HR344 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House (HR344ER) |
| VA | HJR427 | Pass | Election of Court of Appeals of Virginia Judges, Circuit Court Election of Court of Appeals of Virginia Judges, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, and a member of the Judicial I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ427ER) |
| VA | SR136 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate (SR136ER) |
| VA | SR137 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Bill text as passed Senate (SR137ER) |
| VA | SB444 | Engross
50% | School boards; placement in alternative education programs; disclosure of certain information in delinquency cases. Authorizes a court in which a disposition is entered or deferred in any proceeding where a student is charged with an offense that, pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Education Committee |
| VA | SB575 | Engross
50% | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that, prior to the discharge of any minor admitted to inpatient treatment (i) who is a student at a public elementary or secondary school and (ii) for whom the facility deem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1263 | Engross
50% | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB244 | Intro
25% | Protective order in case of family abuse; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, provided that the minor has not otherwise been emancipated pursuant to law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB295 | Intro
25% | Protective order in case of family abuse; parents; minors. Prohibits the parent of a minor from filing a petition for a family abuse protective order against such minor, or from filing as next friend on behalf of his minor child against another of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB379 | Intro
25% | Sentencing guidelines; violent felony offenses; purchasing or selling of minors. Adds the crime of purchasing or selling of minors to the list of violent felony offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB683 | Intro
25% | Board of zoning appeals; appeal to general district court. Provides that in the case of an appeal from the board of zoning appeals of an order, requirement, decision, or determination of a zoning administrator, a person aggrieved by any such order, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB635 | Intro
25% | Juveniles; confidentiality of Department records; law-enforcement access; victim notification. Provides access to confidential Department of Juvenile Justice records to (i) any full-time or part-time employee of the Department of State Police or of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB808 | Fail | State psychiatric hospitals; temporary detention orders; delayed admission to determine medical needs. Allows state psychiatric hospitals to delay admission of an individual under a temporary detention order until the state psychiatric hospital has d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB1017 | Engross
50% | Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that prior to the discharge of any minor or individual who has been admitted to inpatient treatment and is a student at a public elementary or secondary school, a copy of su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (42-Y 55-N) |
| VA | HB1123 | Intro
25% | Maximum number of authorized judgeships in each judicial district. Increases from six to seven the number of authorized general district court judgeships and increases from five to seven the number of authorized juvenile and domestic relations distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB835 | Intro
25% | Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; appointment of counsel or guardian ad litem; removal or appeal. Specifies that any attorney appointed to represent a child or parent, guardian, or other adult at a hearing in the juvenile and domestic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB767 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; compulsory attendance policies and procedures; educational neglect defined. Revises the policies and procedures relating to addressing the nonattendance or nonenrollment of a child subject to compulsory educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| VA | HB1144 | Intro
25% | Children alleged to be abused or neglected; preliminary removal hearing; appointment of counsel for parent of such child. Provides that at a preliminary removal hearing in cases in which a child is alleged to have been abused or neglected, the court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
