Courts Of Record
Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Judges; nominations for election to Court of Appeals of Virginia. [HR-51]
Nominating persons to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
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Judges; election in Court of Appeals, circuit court, general district court, etc. [HJR-704]
Election of Judges. Election of Court of Appeals of Virginia Judges, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Parental rights; final orders for termination are appealed directly to Court of Appeals. [HB-748]
Termination of parental rights; juvenile court as court of record. Provides that final orders involving the termination of parental rights and the approval of permanency plans with the goal of adoption entered by the juvenile and domestic relations district court are appealed directly to the Court of Appeals. The bill further establishes that the juvenile court functions as a court of record in such cases.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Circuit courts; shall have original and general jurisdiction over certain cases. [HB-292]
Termination of parental rights; original jurisdiction; circuit court. Provides that the circuit courts shall have original and general jurisdiction over all cases involving the termination of residual parental rights and eliminates the juvenile and domestic relations district courts' concurrent jurisdiction over such cases.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Newspapers; may petition circuit court for authority to publish legal notices and publications. [HB-282]
Court approval of newspapers used for legal notices and publications. Provides that a newspaper may petition the circuit court for the jurisdiction in which the newspaper is located or circulated for the authority to publish ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Deferred dispositions; no court shall have authority to defer and dismiss a criminal case. [HB-2513]
Inherent authority to defer and dismiss a criminal case. Provides that no court shall have the authority, upon a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or after a plea of not guilty, when the facts found by the court would justify a finding of guilt, to defer proceedings or to defer entry of a final order of guilt for more than 60 days following the conclusion of the evidence or to dismiss the case upon completion of terms and conditions except as provided by statute. This is in response to the January 13, 2011, Supreme Court of Virginia decision in
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Court records; secure remote access restrictions do not apply to secure access by attorneys, etc. [HB-2483]
Secure remote access to court records. Allows access to an attorney's staff if directly supervised by counsel of record on a particular case.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Computer analysis; clerk may assess person fee performed by law-enforcement agency when convicted. [HB-2449]
Fee for analysis of computer of criminal defendant. Provides that a criminal defendant may be assessed costs in an amount equivalent to the actual cost for each computer analysis, not to exceed $100, performed by a law-enforcement or other investigative agency upon any criminal conviction of any charge or charges requiring computer analysis when the analysis revealed evidence used at the trial of the person.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Drug treatment courts; established in Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, etc. [HB-2431]
Drug treatment courts. Authorizes the establishment of drug treatment courts in the Counties of Buchanan, Dickenson, and Russell and in the courts of the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Judicial vacancies; removes requirement of certifying prior to legislature filling vacancies. [HB-242]
Judicial vacancies. Removes the requirement that the Committee on District Courts and the Supreme Court certify vacancies in the judiciary prior to the legislature filling those vacancies.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Pendente lite custody orders; may be appealed to appropriate appellate court. [HB-2266]
Pendente lite custody orders; appeals. Provides that pendente lite custody or visitation orders, despite their temporary nature, may be appealed to the appropriate appellate court.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Transportation agency efficiencies & cost recoveries; exempts VDOT, etc., paying remote access fee. [HB-2233]
Transportation agency efficiencies and cost recoveries. Exempts the Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) from paying any fee for remote access to land records; provides for VDOT to recommend to the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) an annual rate to be used by VDOT to make payments for maintenance; deletes references to the statewide maintenance cost index, the base lane per mile rate, and fund allocation; and adds language indicating that total payments are not to exceed CTB allocations.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Repair of derelict buildings; authority of locality to appoint receivers. [HB-2210]
Repair of derelict buildings; authority of locality to appoint receivers. Allows any locality that has adopted an ordinance pursuant to §15.2-907.1 to petition the circuit court for the appointment of a receiver to repair a residential building that has been declared a derelict building. The appointed receiver shall have the right of possession of the property and shall have the authority to contract for necessary labor and supplies, borrow money for repair, manage the property after repair, and enforce the receiver%92s lien or accept a deed in
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Court fees; fixed misdemeanor and fixed felony fees. [HB-2150]
Court fees; fixed misdemeanor and fixed felony fees. Amends the fees collected by courts for felony and misdemeanor convictions to reflect 2010 amendments to §15.2-1627.3 by Chapter 874 increasing fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commonwealth, Secretary of; elimination of need to publish printed certified list of local officers. [HB-2149]
Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth; list of local officers. Eliminates the requirement that local governments send to the Secretary of the Commonwealth and that the Secretary of the Commonwealth publish a printed certified list of all local officers and constitutional officers. There is no need to print such a report since it is online.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Death sentence; removes some circumstances which circuit courts are required to set execution dates. [HB-2092]
Death sentence; execution dates. Removes some of the circumstances in which circuit courts are required to set execution dates before state and federal review of an inmate's death sentence is complete. The federal Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 has revised the remedies available to the convicted person and imposes a one-year statute of limitations for filing petitions for federal review of state convictions and sentences.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Guardianship; child custody. [HB-2085]
Guardianship; child custody. Eliminates the option for parents who are separated but not divorced to bring a custody proceeding in either circuit court or juvenile and domestic relations district court. Such actions shall be brought in juvenile and domestic relations district court, unless concurrent jurisdiction exists with the circuit court, i.e., divorce actions.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Criminal proceedings; investigative costs of law-enforcement agency. [HB-2067]
Criminal proceedings; costs of law-enforcement agency. Allows a law-enforcement agency to apply to the court for the recovery of investigative costs to be imposed upon a defendant as court costs.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Protective orders; expands class of persons eligible to obtain. [HB-2063]
Protective orders; availability; penalty. Renames "protective orders for stalking" as "protective orders" and expands the class of persons that is eligible to obtain a protective order by enlarging the types of conduct that permit the issuance of a protective order from certain specified criminal acts to any act involving violence, force, or threat that results in bodily injury or places one in reasonable apprehension of death, sexual assault, or bodily injury. Such protective orders are available based on such conduct, regardless of the relationship
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Prepayment of fines; circuit court may enter order for paying those under traffic infraction. [HB-2033]
Prepayment of fines under local ordinances. Provides that the chief judge of a circuit court may enter an order allowing for the prepayment of fines imposed under local traffic infraction and other local ordinances. Currently, such an order must be entered by all judges of the circuit.