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2005 SESSION

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HB 1994 Courtrooms; chief judges in certain localities designate as civil or criminal.

Introduced by: H. Morgan Griffith | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Designation of courtrooms.  Restores a provision, repealed in a title revision, which allows the chief judges of the Twenty-first (Martinsville, Henry, and Patrick) and the Twenty-third (Roanoke, Salem, and Roanoke County) Judicial Circuits to designate particular courtrooms within their respective circuits as civil or criminal courtrooms.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/05  House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 057138308  pdf
• 02/24/05  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1994ER)  pdf
• 03/29/05  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389)  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/10/05  House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 057138308
• 01/10/05  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/14/05  House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: Civil Law
• 01/21/05  House: Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N)
• 01/25/05  House: Read first time
• 01/26/05  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 01/27/05  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
• 01/27/05  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
• 01/27/05  House: Communicated to Senate
• 01/28/05  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/28/05  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/09/05  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/11/05  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/11/05  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/14/05  Senate: Read third time
• 02/14/05  Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/14/05  Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/24/05  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1994ER)
• 02/24/05  House: Enrolled
• 02/24/05  House: Signed by Speaker
• 02/25/05  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/21/05  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 389 (effective 7/1/05)
• 03/29/05  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389)