Courts Of Record
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Deferred disposition; persons with autism or intellectual disabilities. [SB-173]
Deferred disposition in criminal cases. Allows a court to defer and dismiss a criminal case, other than an act of violence, where the defendant has been diagnosed with autism or an intellectual disability.
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Sodomy; crimes against nature, clarifies provisions of clause, penalty. [SB-14]
Certain sex crimes. Adds the words "anal intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, and anilingus" to numerous Code sections criminalizing certain conduct to clarify the behaviors that are prohibited. The bill also clarifies the sex crimes that are prohibited by the crimes against nature statute. The bill also increases from $10 to $15 the additional fee placed upon each felony or misdemeanor conviction assessed as court costs and deposited into the state treasury and credited to the Internet Crimes Against Children Fund. The bill states that an emergency
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Judges; nominating persons to be elected to Circuit Court judgeships. [HR-75]
Nominating persons to be elected to Circuit Court judgeships.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Judges; nominating persons to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia. [HR-74]
Nominating persons to be elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Judge; nomination for election to circuit court. [HR-102]
Nominating a person to be elected to circuit court judgeship.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Judge; election in circuit court. [HJR-260]
Election of a Circuit Court Judge.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Judges; election in Court of Appeals, Circuit Court, General District Court, etc. [HJR-143]
Election of Court of Appeals of Virginia Judges, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, a member of the State Corporation Commission, and a member of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Police and court records; expungement of records, waiver of hearing. [HB-982]
Expungement of police and court records; hearing. Provides that a circuit court may waive hearing in an expungement proceeding where an agreed order is submitted by the Commonwealth and the petitioner.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Chief judges; duties. [HB-967]
Duties of the chief judges. Places the authority for recalling judges for duty after retirement with the chief judges of the district and circuit courts.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Federal government; allows Governor to declare state of emergency in response to a shutdown, etc. [HB-90]
Federal government shutdown; creditor process; utility service. Allows the Governor to declare a state of emergency in response to a federal government shutdown, which is defined as a partial or total discontinuance of federal governmental services due to a failure by the President and Congress to approve the necessary funding for the operations of the federal government. During the period that the state of emergency is in effect, no public utility shall terminate a customer's service for nonpayment if the State Corporation Commission determines
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Arraignment; defendant may enter conditional guilty plea in certain cases in circuit court. [HB-80]
Conditional guilty pleas. Gives the defendant the same right to enter a conditional guilty plea in a misdemeanor case in circuit court that exists in a felony case.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; adoption and rule enforcement, appeals. [HB-791]
Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; rule enforcement. Provides that associations may file or defend a legal action in general district or circuit court to seek an order to require that any violation of the condominium instruments or rules duly adopted pursuant thereto be corrected. However, the bill provides that before any action authorized in the bill or in the governing documents is taken to enforce rules violations and after written notice of the alleged violation to the owner at the address required for notices of meetings, the
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Mature driver motor vehicle crash prevention course; license renewal, reduction in rates. [HB-771]
Mature driver crash prevention. Provides for a course in mature driver motor vehicle crash prevention and provides that such course is an option for the court in adjudicating defendants. The bill also lowers the age at which drivers are required to appear before the DMV for renewal from 80 to 75 and requires that licenses issued to persons age 75 or older be valid for no more than five years. The bill contains a delayed effective date.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Recordation of deeds and deeds of trust; use of cover sheets on deeds. [HB-763]
Recorded writings; deeds; cover sheets; indexes. Permits, but does not require, the use of a cover sheet in the presentation of instruments for recordation in jurisdictions that do not currently mandate the use of cover sheets. The bill provides for specific requirements for cover sheets used in the filing of deeds and other instruments relating to real property and provides that the cover sheets shall be developed in conjunction with the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court. The bill changes the statutory form of deeds, deeds
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Fraud and Abuse Whistle Blower Protection Act; discriminatory and retaliatory action. [HB-728]
Discriminatory and retaliatory action against whistle blower; remedies. Provides that no employer may discharge, threaten, or otherwise discriminate or retaliate against a whistle blower, in whole or in part, because the whistle blower is requested or subpoenaed by an appropriate authority to participate in an investigation, hearing, or inquiry by an appropriate authority or in a court action. The bill also provides that any whistle blower may bring a civil action for prohibited actions against him in the circuit court of the jurisdiction where
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Trafficking in persons; penalties. [HB-716]
Trafficking in persons; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking in persons for forced labor or sexual servitude and adds the new felonies as a predicate criminal act under the criminal gang statute, as racketeering crimes, and to the functions of a multijurisdiction grand jury, and also allows seizure and forfeiture of property used in committing such felonies. The new felonies and the existing felony of receiving money for procuring a person are added to the rape shield statute. The bill also makes sexual servitude an affirmative defense
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Recording of evidence, etc.; misdemeanor cases electronically in circuit court. [HB-704]
Recording of trial, etc.; misdemeanor cases in circuit court. Requires the circuit court in misdemeanor cases to allow the Commonwealth, the defendant, or both to record evidence and incidents of trial by a mechanical or electronic device in cases in which there is no court reporter or other court-approved verbatim recording. The purpose of the recording is to aid counsel in producing a statement of facts for appeal when there is no transcript. The recording will not be made a part of the record unless otherwise permitted.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Writ of actual innocence; petitions, bail hearings. [HB-671]
Writ of actual innocence; bail hearings. Provides that when the attorney for the Commonwealth joins in a petition for a writ of actual innocence, the petitioner may move the circuit court that entered the felony conviction for a bail hearing.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Recordation & marginal release; circuit court clerk not required to make recordings in record books. [HB-607]
Clerk; recordation; marginal release. Removes the requirements that the clerk of the circuit court make recordings in the margins of pages in record books to accommodate the use of electronic filing databases by circuit court clerks.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Judges; maximum number in circuit, general district, and juvenile courts, etc. [HB-606]
Number of circuit and district court judges. Increases and decreases the number of circuit, general district, and juvenile court judges authorized for each judicial circuit and district in accordance with a study report issued by the National Center for State Courts. These adjustments are recommended by the Judicial Council and by the Committee on District Courts. The bill also requires the Chief Justice to designate any judge serving in a circuit or district where the number of authorized judges is reduced after July 1, 2014, to provide assistance
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