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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Marsh Criminal-Traffic Division/Manchester General District Court, etc.; concurrent jurisdiction."
+description: "Clarifies that the Marsh Criminal-Traffic Division at Manchester General District Court has concurrent jurisdiction with the John Marshall Criminal-Traffic Division at the Richmond General District Court over all matters arising in the City of Richmond. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1742"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1742 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Courts Not of Record"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dawn M. Adams"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2018-12-20"
+last_action: "2019-03-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9c466bf-8515-4d61-ae1a-409d8292a3db"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1742"
+source_hash: "1af4ed64b041d1e75725baef861c100edc66fb1a7e1bb466169d8e7dbb235151"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1742 (2019) — Marsh Criminal-Traffic Division/Manchester General District Court, etc.; concurrent jurisdiction.
+
+Clarifies that the Marsh Criminal-Traffic Division at Manchester General District Court has concurrent jurisdiction with the John Marshall Criminal-Traffic Division at the Richmond General District Court over all matters arising in the City of Richmond. As introduced, this bill was a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0321)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0321)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1742ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1742ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101095D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1742)
+4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1742ASE)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dawn M. Adams — primary (person)
+- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
+- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosalyn R. Dance — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-12-20** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101095D `introduction`
+- **2018-12-20** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-07** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Passed by for the day
+- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-14** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2019-02-14** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2019-02-14** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2019-02-18** Placed on Calendar
+- **2019-02-18** Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
+- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 321 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9c466bf-8515-4d61-ae1a-409d8292a3db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+