republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-1310.md

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Bill	Retention of case records; electronic format.	Allows the clerk of a district court to destroy the papers, records, and documents in civil and criminal cases after the case has ended if such papers, records, and documents have been microfilmed or converted to an electronic format. Under current law, such records can be destroyed after three years. Current law exceptions for records with administrative, fiscal, historical, or legal value and records for certain specified misdemeanors are retained.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 1310	Virginia HB 1310 (2018)	bill	Computer Services and Uses Courts Not of Record	enacted	Joseph C. Lindsey	3	17	6	2018-01-10	2018-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/f6f4072c-8a5b-4645-b480-7d5e565d8b2a	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1310	40c2606b8df53ac68f7fecaa277e324404ee3514beec512a2f403b4ff71817d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1310 (2018) — Retention of case records; electronic format.

Allows the clerk of a district court to destroy the papers, records, and documents in civil and criminal cases after the case has ended if such papers, records, and documents have been microfilmed or converted to an electronic format. Under current law, such records can be destroyed after three years. Current law exceptions for records with administrative, fiscal, historical, or legal value and records for certain specified misdemeanors are retained.

Version chain

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

1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1310ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 18106695D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Presented and ordered printed 18103965D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 18–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Joseph C. Lindsey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Presented and ordered printed 18103965D introduction
• 2018-01-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2018-01-18 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2018-02-07 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-02-08 Committee substitute agreed to 18106695D-H1
• 2018-02-08 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1310H1
• 2018-02-09 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2018-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-21 Enrolled
• 2018-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-23 Signed by President
• 2018-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
• 2018-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
• 2018-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 128 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6f4072c-8a5b-4645-b480-7d5e565d8b2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).