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Bill	District courts; jurisdictional limit does not include any attorney fees.	Provides that the jurisdictional limit for general district courts does not include any attorney fees. The bill requires that the amount of an appeal bond required for appeals from a district court include any amount awarded for attorney fees in the case.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 1342	Virginia SB 1342 (2017)	bill	Courts Not of Record Professions and Occupations	enacted	Scott A. Surovell	4	22	9	2017-01-10	2017-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/3ac6fabf-f123-4942-bb7d-e9b7da4d887e	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1342	15e5ed053ba2e8dd419c1757184415a9db3fac782c18e1bed845e7972ba826dd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1342 (2017) — District courts; jurisdictional limit does not include any attorney fees.

Provides that the jurisdictional limit for general district courts does not include any attorney fees. The bill requires that the amount of an appeal bond required for appeals from a district court include any amount awarded for attorney fees in the case.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0657) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1342ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103446D (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Printed as engrossed 17103446D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of House amendment agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• House amendment agreed to by Senate — 33–7 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — 11–4 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 26–14 (pass) · legislature
• House amendment agreed to by Senate — 36–4 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — 21–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103446D introduction
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-01 Reading of amendment waived
• 2017-02-01 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-01 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1342E
• 2017-02-01 Printed as engrossed 17103446D-E
• 2017-02-06 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 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 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-22 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2017-02-22 Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-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 657 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ac6fabf-f123-4942-bb7d-e9b7da4d887e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).