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HOUSE BILL NO. 1725 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on February 19, 2020) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Campbell, J.L.) A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-1638.1, relating to circuit court judges; administrative assistants.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.2-1638.1 as follows:

§ 15.2-1638.1. Administrative assistants in offices of circuit court judges who are employees of a locality.

An employee hired and paid by a county or city to assist with the administration of a judge's office in the twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, or thirtieth judicial circuits shall serve at the sole direction and under the sole supervision of such judge. Nothing herein shall be construed to affect the authority of the circuit court clerk to (i) perform statutory duties with respect to court administration or (ii) assign deputy clerks to provide judicial assistance to the court, at the sole discretion of the clerk.