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Bill	Judges; maximum number in each judicial district and circuit.	Increases or decreases the maximum number of judges in select judicial districts and circuits to reflect the number of authorized judgeships recommended by the Supreme Court of Virginia in the 2017 "Virginia Judicial Workload Assessment Report." This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 743	Virginia HB 743 (2018)	bill	Courts Not of Record Courts of Record Judges Justices and Other Elective Officers	enacted	James A. "Jay" Leftwich	3	18	6	2018-01-09	2018-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/c9ffdbbf-d01b-4d91-94fc-383f5edfa8f6	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB743	8b5723e7e3862ef63cdd0285e44073884e14e897139a6961ab3079b79fb9365a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 743 (2018) — Judges; maximum number in each judicial district and circuit.

Increases or decreases the maximum number of judges in select judicial districts and circuits to reflect the number of authorized judgeships recommended by the Supreme Court of Virginia in the 2017 "Virginia Judicial Workload Assessment Report." This bill is identical to

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 (HB743ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101400D (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Printed as engrossed 18101400D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — 18–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 11–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)
• Les R. Adams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101400D introduction
• 2018-01-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2018-01-16 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 amendment agreed to
• 2018-02-08 Engrossed by House as amended HB743E
• 2018-02-08 Printed as engrossed 18101400D-E
• 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 126 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9ffdbbf-d01b-4d91-94fc-383f5edfa8f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).