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2002 SESSION
HJ 32 Study; magistrate system.
Introduced by: Beverly J. Sherwood | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Magistrates. Requests the Committee on District Courts of the Supreme Court of Virginia to study the magistrate system in Virginia. In conducting the study, the Committee shall review the laws and administrative policies governing the selection, training, oversight and evaluation of magistrates to ensure that magistrates have a basic competency in law and court procedures that is uniform and consistent across the Commonwealth. The Committee shall also review magistrate policies and operations within judicial circuits to ensure that there is accountability for the actions of magistrates, and that there is a uniform statewide system for taking and resolving complaints and inquiries about the actions of magistrates, particularly in the decision-making process used for determining bail and setting bond in domestic and family violence cases.
The Committee must report its findings and recommendatins to the Governor and the 2003 Session of the General Assembly.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/02 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/26/01 026447932 pdf
- 02/11/02 House: Committee substitute printed 021905932-H1 pdf
- 03/15/02 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ32ER) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/09/02 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/26/01 026447932
- 01/09/02 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/10/02 House: Reported from Rules with substitute (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/02 House: Committee substitute printed 021905932-H1
- 02/12/02 House: Taken up
- 02/12/02 House: Committee substitute agreed to 021905932-H1
- 02/12/02 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute 021905932-H1
- 02/12/02 House: Agreed to by House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/02 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/02 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/13/02 Senate: Reading waived
- 02/13/02 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 03/01/02 Senate: Rereferred from Rules by voice vote
- 03/01/02 Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 03/04/02 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice by voice vote
- 03/05/02 Senate: Rules suspended (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/02 Senate: VOTE: SUSPEND THE RULES R (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/02 Senate: Reading waived
- 03/05/02 Senate: Read third time and agreed to by Senate by voice vote
- 03/15/02 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ32ER)