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type: "Bill"
title: "Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; secrecy of information."
description: "Provides that any person granted permission to make notes and to duplicate portions of the evidence given before the multi-jurisdiction grand jury shall maintain the secrecy of all information obtained from a review or duplication of the evidence presented to the multi-jurisdiction grand jury, except for disclosure as he deems necessary for use in a criminal investigation or proceeding. The bill also provides that after a person has been indicted by a grand jury, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall notify such person that the multi-jurisdiction grand jury was used to obtain evidence for a prosecution. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2413"
citation: "Virginia HB 2413 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les R. Adams"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdc166f3-e4d3-4d25-9b2c-c2a0348b0cb1"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2413"
source_hash: "8c15b74931926fc52a50d8146bf66f653af160794283cba5bcdf294d883ee1aa"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 2413 (2019) — Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; secrecy of information.
Provides that any person granted permission to make notes and to duplicate portions of the evidence given before the multi-jurisdiction grand jury shall maintain the secrecy of all information obtained from a review or duplication of the evidence presented to the multi-jurisdiction grand jury, except for disclosure as he deems necessary for use in a criminal investigation or proceeding. The bill also provides that after a person has been indicted by a grand jury, the attorney for the Commonwealth shall notify such person that the multi-jurisdiction grand jury was used to obtain evidence for a prosecution. As introduced, the bill was a recommendation of the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0522)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0522)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2413ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2413ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102055D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2413)
4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2413ASE)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **180** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendments — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **60** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Les R. Adams — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102055D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3 `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`
- **2019-02-14** Reading of amendments waived
- **2019-02-14** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-18** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 522 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cdc166f3-e4d3-4d25-9b2c-c2a0348b0cb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).