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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; breach of Canons of Judicial Conduct."
+description: "Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; breach of Canons of Judicial Conduct."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2168"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2168 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-03-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8de7e583-90a9-4542-948f-4df5dbfec324"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2168"
+source_hash: "bd9bed5a8b049aac2830543b822e380902ba67b3d8f3f3d223f1a0a0be895d07"
+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 2168 (2023) — Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; breach of Canons of Judicial Conduct.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0700** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0700)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 23105185D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2168H1)
+3. **HB2168ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2168ER)
+4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103435D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2168)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Adoption (81-Y 17-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed Senate with amendment (22-Y 18-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (67-Y 31-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Judiciary with amendment (10-Y 5-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103435D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
+- **2023-01-23** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-23** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-23** Committee substitute printed 23105185D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-26** Committee substitute agreed to 23105185D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-26** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2168H1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-27** Read third time and passed House (67-Y 31-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-27** VOTE: Passage (67-Y 31-N) `passage`
+- **2023-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-01-30** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-15** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-02-15** Reported from Judiciary with amendment (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-20** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2023-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2023-02-20** Passed Senate with amendment (22-Y 18-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Senate amendment agreed to by House (81-Y 17-N) `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Adoption (81-Y 17-N)
+- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2168ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 700 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-27** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8de7e583-90a9-4542-948f-4df5dbfec324`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+