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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Jury service; exempts clerk of circuit court and circuit court clerk deputies."
+description: "Exemption from jury service; clerk of circuit court; circuit court clerk deputies. Automatically exempts the elected clerk of any circuit court and such clerk's deputies from serving on juries in civil and criminal cases."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2536"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2536 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Callsen"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-09"
+last_action: "2025-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90010847-f829-4b8e-9c3d-b25d12f7cba3"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2536"
+source_hash: "b636044bebe8233e02e96d5b5d74b2ea86535f747086dc73f1ad161d69035297"
+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 2536 (2025) — Jury service; exempts clerk of circuit court and circuit court clerk deputies.
+
+Exemption from jury service; clerk of circuit court; circuit court clerk deputies. Automatically exempts the elected clerk of any circuit court and such clerk's deputies from serving on juries in civil and criminal cases.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1017300.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071218.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066558.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Katrina Callsen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104715D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-22** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-24** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-30** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-01-31** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-17** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-18** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-18** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-19** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2536ER) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 92 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0092)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90010847-f829-4b8e-9c3d-b25d12f7cba3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+