---
type: "Bill"
title: "Substitute judges."
description: "Substitute judges."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 928"
citation: "Virginia SB 928 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Judges", "Justices and Other Elective Officers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Chapman Petersen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-27"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90376c66-43ef-498e-83e1-a772a463dbc0"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB928"
source_hash: "32ad4b0d822da7f45a0deec155eaf914744045448c40f095e6f7f1e79fa3db9d"
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 928 (2017) — Substitute judges.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0650)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB928ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB928ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101892D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB928)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **16–5** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **93–7** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–2** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101892D `introduction`
- **2016-12-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Passed House (93-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 650 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90376c66-43ef-498e-83e1-a772a463dbc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).