Court buildings; ownership, location, and jurisdiction.
Summary
Allows courthouses to be located on property owned jointly by a county and city. Other changes allow Albemarle County to locate its general district courts immediately across the street from the county courthouse and clarify certain jurisdictional issues in cases where a county general district court is established in a city.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Mar 2019
Introduced Jan 8, 2019
Signed Mar 5, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 12, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Feb 12, 2019
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
4
Committee
3
Mar 5, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 240 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 13, 2019
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 12, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
Feb 5, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2019
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #4
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102603D
lower
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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