republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-63.md

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Bill	Court of Appeals; use of moot courtroom of accredited law schools.	Court of Appeals; use of moot courtroom of accredited law schools. Provides that upon proper agreement with the applicable authorities the Court of Appeals may use the moot courtroom of any accredited law school located in the Commonwealth for the holding of court and for its ancillary functions. Current law specifies that the Court may use state and federal facilities but not private law schools in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 1002.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 63	Virginia HB 63 (2020)	bill		enacted	Jason S. Miyares	3	23	6	2019-12-04	2020-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/9322992a-bc02-4c6f-b726-40951e0e5834	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB63	931c37cd12211d7b92e6192056ba92ccc6780b5d787b8de69977a97c865141e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 63 (2020) — Court of Appeals; use of moot courtroom of accredited law schools.

Court of Appeals; use of moot courtroom of accredited law schools. Provides that upon proper agreement with the applicable authorities the Court of Appeals may use the moot courtroom of any accredited law school located in the Commonwealth for the holding of court and for its ancillary functions. Current law specifies that the Court may use state and federal facilities but not private law schools in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 1002.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0067) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB63ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (HB63) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 0-N) — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jason S. Miyares — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100871D introduction
• 2019-12-04 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB63)
• 2020-01-23 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2020-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-27 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-31 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-19 Enrolled
• 2020-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB63ER)
• 2020-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-20 Signed by President
• 2020-02-24 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2020
• 2020-02-24 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020
• 2020-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 67 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9322992a-bc02-4c6f-b726-40951e0e5834. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).