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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; secrecy of information."
+description: "Provides that any person granted permission to make notes and to duplicate portions of the evidence given before the multi-jurisdiction grand jury shall maintain the secrecy of all information obtained from a review or duplication of the evidence presented to the multi-jurisdiction grand jury, except for disclosure as he deems necessary for use in a criminal investigation or proceeding. The bill also provides that after a person has been indicted by a grand jury, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall notify such person that the multi-jurisdiction grand jury was used to obtain evidence for a prosecution. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2413"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2413 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Procedure"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Les R. Adams"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdc166f3-e4d3-4d25-9b2c-c2a0348b0cb1"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2413"
+source_hash: "8c15b74931926fc52a50d8146bf66f653af160794283cba5bcdf294d883ee1aa"
+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 2413 (2019) — Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; secrecy of information.
+
+Provides that any person granted permission to make notes and to duplicate portions of the evidence given before the multi-jurisdiction grand jury shall maintain the secrecy of all information obtained from a review or duplication of the evidence presented to the multi-jurisdiction grand jury, except for disclosure as he deems necessary for use in a criminal investigation or proceeding. The bill also provides that after a person has been indicted by a grand jury, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall notify such person that the multi-jurisdiction grand jury was used to obtain evidence for a prosecution. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0522)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2413ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2413ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102055D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2413)
+4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2413ASE)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Les R. Adams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102055D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-24** 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 amendments waived
+- **2019-02-14** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2019-02-18** Placed on Calendar
+- **2019-02-18** Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-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
+- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 522 (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/cdc166f3-e4d3-4d25-9b2c-c2a0348b0cb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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