Courts Of Record
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Judges; retirement allowance and service after retirement. [HB-10]
Judges; retirement allowance and service after retirement. Provides that the annual retirement allowance of any person who has served as a judge but retires under a different defined benefit retirement plan shall not exceed 78 percent of the person's average final compensation, unless such person after ceasing to be a judge performs five or more years of creditable service under such other defined benefit retirement plan. However, in no case shall such person's annual retirement allowance exceed 100 percent of his average final compensation. The
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Judges; nominations for election to circuit court. [SR-507]
Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
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Virginia 2013 Special I
Judges; nominations for election to circuit court. [HR-529]
Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
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Virginia 2013 Special I
Judges; election in circuit, general district, juvenile and domestic relations district court, etc. [HJR-5045]
Election of Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, and members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Judges; nomination for election to circuit court. [SR-26]
Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Contempt appeal; allows circuit judge to sit without a jury to hear from judgment of district court. [SB-870]
Criminal procedure; contempt appeal. Provides that a circuit judge shall, sitting without a jury, hear an appeal from a summary contempt judgment of the district court.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Courts of record; land records; indigency determinations. [SB-825]
Courts of record; land records; indigency determinations. Requires the Supreme Court to make available to the courts databases containing land records for use by the courts in indigency determinations.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Clerks' fees; collection of restitution payments. [SB-752]
Clerks' fees; collection of restitution payments. Allows the clerk of a circuit court to assess a fee of 10 percent of the total amount of restitution for collection of restitution payments.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Larceny; court may require accused to undergo an assessment and enter treatment program, etc. [SB-71]
Grand larceny; first offender. Allows the court to defer disposition for a person charged with larceny who has not previously been convicted of or charged with a felony, an offense related to larceny, embezzlement, fraud, or any crime of moral turpitude. As a condition of probation the court must require the defendant to complete any required treatment or education program, make a reasonable effort to secure and maintain employment, perform community service, and make restitution.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Circuit court judges; restricts appointment to office if General Assembly fails to elect. [SB-693]
Appointment of judge by circuit court. Restricts the circuit courts from appointing to judicial office any person either house of the General Assembly failed to elect.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Sentencing guidelines; definition of violent felony. [SB-1214]
Sentencing guidelines; definition of violent felony. Adds to the list of violent felonies: killing of a fetus, criminal street gang recruitment using force, strangulation of another, assault and battery when it is a hate crime, felony violation of a protective order, felony infected sexual battery, manufacture bombs, willfully discharging a firearm in a public place resulting in bodily injury, brandishing a machete or other bladed weapon near a school, wearing body armor while committing certain crimes, display of grooming video to child, cross
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Local government records; clarifies authority of Auditor of Public Accounts, annual audit. [SB-1124]
Auditing of local government records. Clarifies the authority of the Auditor of Public Accounts (APA) and the type of audit that shall satisfy the annual audit requirement for localities and constitutional officers. The bill provides that the completion of an audit by an independent certified public accountant on behalf of the locality, when the audit includes the clerk of the circuit court, shall satisfy the requirement stipulated by § 30-134 that the APA audit the accounts of the locality at least once every two years. The bill also clarifies
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Judicial conferences; restricts meetings to no more than once every other year. [SB-1058]
Judicial conferences; meetings. Restricts meetings of the mandatory judicial conferences to no more than once every other year.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Conservators of the peace, special; any State museum to apply for appointment by circuit court. [SB-1048]
Special conservators of the peace; museums of the Commonwealth. Authorizes any museum owned and managed by the Commonwealth to apply for the appointment by the circuit court of a special conservator of the peace.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Judges; nomination for election to circuit court. [HR-125]
Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Judges; election in circuit court, general district court, etc. [HJR-729]
Election of Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, and the Auditor of Public Accounts.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Concealed handgun permits and carrying concealed weapons; reorganizing and recodifying law. [HB-923]
Reorganizing and recodifying the law related to carrying concealed weapons and concealed handgun permits. Reorganizes the existing § 18.2-308 into a new Article 6.1 in Chapter 7 of Title 18.2. The new article creates separate, discrete sections to address the general criminal prohibition against carrying concealed weapons; the requirements for applying for a concealed handgun permit; the process the circuit court follows in reviewing, issuing, and denying permits; the appeals process; procedures for nonresidents to obtain permits; the renewal process;
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Application of foreign law; court decisions will be void as violation of public policy of State. [HB-825]
Application of foreign laws. Prohibits any Virginia court or administrative agency from applying the law of any jurisdiction outside of the United States and its territories unless the application is required by the United States Constitution, the Constitution of Virginia, or any federal or state law.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Application of foreign law; court decisions and contracts will be void as violation of policy. [HB-631]
Application of foreign law in Virginia courts. Provides that court decisions and contracts and other agreements will be void as violative of the public policy of the Commonwealth where such decisions or contracts are based on foreign law, i.e., law applied in a jurisdiction outside of the United States, where the application of such foreign law would violate a person's rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution or the Constitution of Virginia.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Circuit court judges; increases number in Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, decreases in Seventeenth. [HB-274]
Number of circuit court judges; Fifteenth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits. Increases the number of circuit court judges in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit from eight to nine, and decreases the number of such judges in the Seventeeth Judicial Circuit from four to three.