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| Bill | Court buildings; ownership, location, and jurisdiction. | Allows courthouses to be located on property owned jointly by a county and city. Other changes allow Albemarle County to locate its general district courts immediately across the street from the county courthouse and clarify certain jurisdictional issues in cases where a county general district court is established in a city. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2019 | HB 2239 | Virginia HB 2239 (2019) |
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Virginia HB 2239 (2019) — Court buildings; ownership, location, and jurisdiction.
Allows courthouses to be located on property owned jointly by a county and city. Other changes allow Albemarle County to locate its general district courts immediately across the street from the county courthouse and clarify certain jurisdictional issues in cases where a county general district court is established in a city.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0240) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2239ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102603D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 18–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
- Bryce E. Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
- David J. Toscano — cosponsor (person)
- R. Creigh Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102603D
introduction - 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2019-01-24 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #4
referral-committee - 2019-02-01 Read first time
reading-1 - 2019-02-04 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2019-02-13 Passed by for the day
- 2019-02-14 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-19 Enrolled
- 2019-02-19 Signed by Speaker
- 2019-02-20 Signed by President
- 2019-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- 2019-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 2019-03-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 240 (effective 7/1/19)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2baa252b-1078-4dc1-afa1-3c66e88a8176. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).