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HOUSE BILL NO. 2133 Offered January 10, 2001 Prefiled January 10, 2001 A BILL to create a pilot project to determine the efficacy of appeals from the juvenile and domestic relations district court to the Court of Appeals. ---------- Patron-- McClure ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Any appeal of an order determining the custody or the abuse and neglect of a minor child or minor children filed between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2002, from the juvenile and domestic relations district court of any county that has adopted an urban county executive form of government shall only be appealable to the Court of Appeals under the standards and practices applicable to the appeals of domestic relations matters from the circuit court to the Court of Appeals. For such matters during the one-year period, there shall be no de novo right of appeal to the circuit court. The Supreme Court of Virginia shall issue such rules which require the preparation of a record sufficient for an appeal to the Court of Appeals and other rules as are necessary to implement these procedures. The chief judge of the juvenile and domestic relations district court shall appoint a study committee to review the results of the pilot project and provide a report of its findings to the Supreme Court of Virginia. The study committee appointed by the chief judge shall consist of judges and practitioners before the juvenile court and at least two persons selected from the public. At the end of the one-year pilot project, the Supreme Court shall prepare a report detailing whether such procedure should be implemented throughout the Commonwealth.