republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-422.md

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Bill	Writ of actual innocence; previously unknown or unavailable nonbiological evidence, etc.	Writ of actual innocence; previously unknownor unavailable nonbiological evidence; contents and form of petition.Changes the provision requiring that a petitioner petitioning fora writ of actual innocence based on previously unknown or unavailablenonbiological evidence allege that such evidence is such as couldnot, by the exercise of diligence, have been discovered or obtainedbefore the expiration of 21 days following entry of the final orderof conviction or adjudication of delinquency by the circuit court to instead require that the petitioner allege such evidence couldnot have been discovered or obtained before the conviction or adjudicationof delinquency became final in the circuit court.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 422	Virginia HB 422 (2022)	bill		enacted	Charniele L. Herring	3	23	6	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/9f6ed2c4-8d42-4c02-9102-5c8173299df0	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB422	02def12fc31d393aba6e4afb606b5ed8bfea4cda461f41420bcf29d95d1fd8be	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 422 (2022) — Writ of actual innocence; previously unknown or unavailable nonbiological evidence, etc.

Writ of actual innocence; previously unknownor unavailable nonbiological evidence; contents and form of petition.Changes the provision requiring that a petitioner petitioning fora writ of actual innocence based on previously unknown or unavailablenonbiological evidence allege that such evidence is such as couldnot, by the exercise of diligence, have been discovered or obtainedbefore the expiration of 21 days following entry of the final orderof conviction or adjudication of delinquency by the circuit court to instead require that the petitioner allege such evidence couldnot have been discovered or obtained before the conviction or adjudicationof delinquency became final in the circuit court.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0625 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB422ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102518D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Charniele L. Herring — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102518D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2022-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB422)
• 2022-02-07 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2022-02-07 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-11 Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-14 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-15 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-16 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-25 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-28 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-02 Enrolled
• 2022-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (HB422ER)
• 2022-03-03 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 625 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f6ed2c4-8d42-4c02-9102-5c8173299df0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).