republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-325.md

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Bill	Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case.	Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case. Allows the court and counsel for either party in a criminal case to (i) ask potential jurors any relevant question to ascertain whether the juror can sit impartially in either the guilt or sentencing phase of the case and (ii) inform any potential juror as to the potential range of punishments to ascertain if the person or juror can sit impartially in the sentencing phase of the case. This bill is identical to HB 100.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 325	Virginia SB 325 (2020)	bill		enacted	R. Creigh Deeds	3	22	6	2020-01-06	2020-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/52602922-043a-4dd2-a703-6b2d8e5dbbb9	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB325	9522c67568914cdf7268e3d1d798b013f7da9b25956c2a2edfe1321505a69b9a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 325 (2020) — Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case.

Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case. Allows the court and counsel for either party in a criminal case to (i) ask potential jurors any relevant question to ascertain whether the juror can sit impartially in either the guilt or sentencing phase of the case and (ii) inform any potential juror as to the potential range of punishments to ascertain if the person or juror can sit impartially in the sentencing phase of the case. This bill is identical to HB 100.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0588) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB325ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB325ER) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 5-N) — 16–5 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (64-Y 36-N) — 63–36 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102152D introduction
• 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-02-10 Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-14 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-14 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-14 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed House (64-Y 36-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 VOTE: Passage (64-Y 36-N)
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-10 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 588 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52602922-043a-4dd2-a703-6b2d8e5dbbb9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).