---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transfer of venue; delinquency, adjudication."
description: ". Provides that a transfer of venue in delinquency proceedings, which under current law may occur only after adjudication, may occur when such adjudication consists of a finding of facts sufficient to justify a finding of delinquency. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts and is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2414"
citation: "Virginia HB 2414 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts Not of Record"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les R. Adams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b41f54c8-e06b-42d5-a4a9-b0f4636dca9a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2414"
source_hash: "a5f6bed194b064d58fc681b6a3d76b4b5e5fcddc993a42403b701dac2e44376d"
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 2414 (2019) — Transfer of venue; delinquency, adjudication.

. Provides that a transfer of venue in delinquency proceedings, which under current law may occur only after adjudication, may occur when such adjudication consists of a finding of facts sufficient to justify a finding of delinquency. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts and is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0235)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0235)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2414ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2414ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101092D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2414)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (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 19101092D `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`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 235 (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/b41f54c8-e06b-42d5-a4a9-b0f4636dca9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).