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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal cases; increases compensation for experts."
+description: "Compensation of experts in criminal cases.Increases from $750 to $1,200 the maximum fee that the court maypay for professional services rendered by each psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, or other expert appointed by the court to render professionalservice in a criminal case other than for aggravated murder cases."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 191"
+citation: "Virginia SB 191 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["T. Montgomery \"Monty\" Mason"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2022-01-10"
+last_action: "2022-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbfc6cf8-f9d4-4fe3-9aef-f21b39c57d15"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB191"
+source_hash: "165bb88edffbb15fb3324c39845b3bff2f52dc6ce949771fdf3a9732c1a5e51b"
+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 SB 191 (2022) — Criminal cases; increases compensation for experts.
+
+Compensation of experts in criminal cases.Increases from $750 to $1,200 the maximum fee that the court maypay for professional services rendered by each psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, or other expert appointed by the court to render professionalservice in a criminal case other than for aggravated murder cases.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0304** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0304)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100566D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB191)
+3. **SB191ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB191ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — primary (person)
+- R. Creigh Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100566D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB191)
+- **2022-01-19** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-19** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-22** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
+- **2022-02-25** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-25** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-28** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-01** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-02** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB191ER)
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
+- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 304 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbfc6cf8-f9d4-4fe3-9aef-f21b39c57d15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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