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2007 SESSION
SB 216 Court Reporting, Board of; created.
Introduced by: Frederick M. Quayle | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Court reporters; penalty. Creates the Virginia Board of Court Reporting to regulate the profession of court reporting. The bill defines "court reporting" as the making of a verbatim recording by means of (i) manual shorthand, (ii) machine shorthand, (iii) stenomask, or (iv) voice writer reporting of any testimony given under oath before, or for submission to, any court examiner, board, commission, or other body created by statute or by the Constitution of Virginia or in any other proceeding where a verbatim record is required. Excluded from the definition are court clerks and employees of a district or circuit court or judge who reports judicial proceedings. Under the bill, after January 1, 2007, any person who engages in court reporting for remuneration without a license shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. The bill includes a provision requiring the Board to enact emergency regulations.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/06 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 064307800 pdf
- 02/08/06 Senate: Printed as engrossed 064307800-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/06 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 064307800
- 01/10/06 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/25/06 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/06 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/06 Senate: VOTE: (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/06 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/31/06 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/01/06 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/02/06 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/03/06 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/06 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/07/06 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/08/06 Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/06 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/06 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/08/06 Senate: Amendment by Senator Quayle agreed to
- 02/08/06 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB216E
- 02/08/06 Senate: Printed as engrossed 064307800-E
- 02/08/06 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/06 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/06 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
- 02/08/06 Senate: VOTE: (38-Y 2-N)
- 02/08/06 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/14/06 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/06 House: Read first time
- 02/14/06 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/06 House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
- 03/01/06 House: Continued to 2007 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
- 12/08/06 House: Left in Courts of Justice