republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-106.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retired circuit and district court judges under recall; evaluation."
description: "Retired circuit and district court judges underrecall; evaluation; qualification by the Senate Committee on theJudiciary and the House Committee for Courts of Justice. Requiresthat retired district court judges sitting as substitutes be foundqualified every three years by the Senate Committee on the Judiciaryand House Committee for Courts of Justice instead of authorized bythe Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The bill alsorequires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Courtof Virginia to prepare and distribute an evaluation form for eachcircuit and district court retired judge who has requested to becalled upon to sit in recall during his final year of the three-year period following qualification. The bill further requires that theOffice of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginiaannually prepare and transmit a report including such evaluationsconducted that year to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary andthe House Committee for Courts of Justice by the first day of thenext regular session of the General Assembly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 106"
citation: "Virginia SB 106 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Surovell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b312f95-0398-4aac-945c-cb4b0b6527ce"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB106"
source_hash: "cc4c55b2742cda8042cb5da78a350f015acd3c611089f84274ad7e1b6f5fa18d"
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 SB 106 (2022) — Retired circuit and district court judges under recall; evaluation.

Retired circuit and district court judges underrecall; evaluation; qualification by the Senate Committee on theJudiciary and the House Committee for Courts of Justice. Requiresthat retired district court judges sitting as substitutes be foundqualified every three years by the Senate Committee on the Judiciaryand House Committee for Courts of Justice instead of authorized bythe Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. The bill alsorequires the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Courtof Virginia to prepare and distribute an evaluation form for eachcircuit and district court retired judge who has requested to becalled upon to sit in recall during his final year of the three-year period following qualification. The bill further requires that theOffice of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginiaannually prepare and transmit a report including such evaluationsconducted that year to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary andthe House Committee for Courts of Justice by the first day of thenext regular session of the General Assembly.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0532** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0532)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100295D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB106)
3. **SB106ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB106ER)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100295D `introduction`
- **2022-01-06** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB106)
- **2022-01-19** Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB106ER)
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 532 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b312f95-0398-4aac-945c-cb4b0b6527ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).