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Bill	Attorney fees; repeals provision that allows only fee of one attorney to be taxed by court.	Repeals the provision that allows only the fee of one attorney to be taxed by the court, even if the recovering party had more than one attorney. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 1024	Virginia HB 1024 (2018)	bill	Courts of Record Professions and Occupations Taxation	enacted	Les R. Adams	3	15	6	2018-01-09	2018-02-26	openstates	ocd-bill/902c6bd7-3899-4ff5-ac6f-ee2ed9da087d	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1024	11e8f651f63c6430b0a934d634c4aeb386cf19aefd0ef7d0f36f0358e3bc3770	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1024 (2018) — Attorney fees; repeals provision that allows only fee of one attorney to be taxed by court.

Repeals the provision that allows only the fee of one attorney to be taxed by the court, even if the recovering party had more than one attorney. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1024ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102382D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice — 18–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Les R. Adams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102382D introduction
• 2018-01-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2018-01-18 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-01 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2018-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-16 Enrolled
• 2018-02-16 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-19 Signed by President
• 2018-02-19 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2018
• 2018-02-19 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 26, 2018
• 2018-02-26 Approved by Governor-Chapter 35 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/902c6bd7-3899-4ff5-ac6f-ee2ed9da087d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).