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type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal cases; increases compensation for experts."
description: "Compensation of experts in criminal cases.Increases from $750 to $1,200 the maximum fee that the court maypay for professional services rendered by each psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, or other expert appointed by the court to render professionalservice in a criminal case other than for aggravated murder cases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 191"
citation: "Virginia SB 191 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Montgomery \"Monty\" Mason"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbfc6cf8-f9d4-4fe3-9aef-f21b39c57d15"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB191"
source_hash: "165bb88edffbb15fb3324c39845b3bff2f52dc6ce949771fdf3a9732c1a5e51b"
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 191 (2022) — Criminal cases; increases compensation for experts.
Compensation of experts in criminal cases.Increases from $750 to $1,200 the maximum fee that the court maypay for professional services rendered by each psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, or other expert appointed by the court to render professionalservice in a criminal case other than for aggravated murder cases.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0304** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0304)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100566D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB191)
3. **SB191ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB191ER)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **200** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — primary (person)
- R. Creigh Deeds — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100566D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB191)
- **2022-01-19** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-19** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** 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`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2022-02-25** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB191ER)
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-08** 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
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 304 (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/fbfc6cf8-f9d4-4fe3-9aef-f21b39c57d15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).