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2010 SESSION

10102790D
HOUSE BILL NO. 293
Offered January 13, 2010
Prefiled January 11, 2010
A BILL to amend and reenact § 17.1-502 of the Code of Virginia, relating to administration of the circuit court system; authority of circuit court judges.
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Patron-- Griffith
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 17.1-502 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 17.1-502. Administrator of circuit court system.

The To the extent that such authority is not vested in the circuit courts or the judge or judges thereof, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court shall be the administrator of the circuit court system, which shall include responsibility for the operation and maintenance of a case management system and financial management system, and related technology improvements, that the Executive Secretary shall deem necessary for the administration of the circuit court system. The Executive Secretary shall permit an interface with the case management system, financial management system, and related technology improvements for the purpose of providing electronic information to state agencies, upon request of any circuit court that uses automation or technology improvements provided by a private vendor or the locality. The circuit court clerk and the clerk's designated application service provider shall comply with the security and data standards established by the Executive Secretary for any such interface between a case management or financial management system operated by a circuit court clerk and the systems of the Executive Secretary. The costs of designing, implementing, and maintaining any such interface with the systems of the Executive Secretary shall be the responsibility of the circuit court clerk. Any expenses incurred within the office of the Executive Secretary, not to exceed $104,280, related to the operation and maintenance of such interfaces with the case management system and financial management system shall be reimbursed through the Technology Trust Fund established pursuant to subsection A of § 17.1-279. The Executive Secretary shall assist the chief judges in the performance of their administrative duties, but shall not supersede any authority granted to the circuit courts or the judges thereof. He may employ such staff and other assistants, from state funds appropriated to him for the purpose, as may be necessary to carry out his duties, and may secure such office space as may be requisite, to be located in an appropriate place to be selected by the Executive Secretary.

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