---
type: "Bill"
title: "Specialty dockets; report."
description: "Requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to develop a statewide evaluation model and conduct ongoing evaluations of the effectiveness and efficiency of all local specialty dockets established in accordance with the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia and submit a report of these evaluations to the General Assembly by December 1 of each year. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2665"
citation: "Virginia HB 2665 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher P. Stolle"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9382715-cd7e-4e4b-8386-c0292fbc9e27"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2665"
source_hash: "6fb9cde86cfd17fc35e2365073823d9e76b065f96cec7d38b570f27732029c6a"
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 2665 (2019) — Specialty dockets; report.

Requires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court to develop a statewide evaluation model and conduct ongoing evaluations of the effectiveness and efficiency of all local specialty dockets established in accordance with the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia and submit a report of these evaluations to the General Assembly by December 1 of each year. This bill 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 (CHAP0013)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0013)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2665ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2665ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19103681D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2665)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christopher P. Stolle — primary (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-11** Presented and ordered printed 19103681D `introduction`
- **2019-01-11** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-05** Enrolled
- **2019-02-05** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-05** Signed by President
- **2019-02-06** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 6, 2019
- **2019-02-06** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 13, 2019
- **2019-02-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 13 (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/b9382715-cd7e-4e4b-8386-c0292fbc9e27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).