republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-392.md

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Bill	Clerk of the court; copies of appointment order to counsel.	Copies of orders to counsel. Provides thatthe clerk of the court shall provide a copy of the appointment orderof a qualified expert to an indigent defendant or his attorney andto the appointed expert. The bill also provides that the chief judgeof each juvenile and domestic relations district court may provide for an alternative means of copying and distributing certain juvenileinvestigative reports or evaluations to counsel.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 392	Virginia SB 392 (2022)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Surovell	3	25	6	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a74d54e4-c36e-42e7-a3bc-d2fb7d03d59b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB392	57a006d08a79c16b9d7afb7a3a43aa11dee0921913a367afe682d3a3fec31c86	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 392 (2022) — Clerk of the court; copies of appointment order to counsel.

Copies of orders to counsel. Provides thatthe clerk of the court shall provide a copy of the appointment orderof a qualified expert to an indigent defendant or his attorney andto the appointed expert. The bill also provides that the chief judgeof each juvenile and domestic relations district court may provide for an alternative means of copying and distributing certain juvenileinvestigative reports or evaluations to counsel.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0543 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100037D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB392ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100037D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB392)
• 2022-01-24 Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-25 Passed by for the day
• 2022-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-27 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-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
• 2022-02-27 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 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 (SB392ER)
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 543 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a74d54e4-c36e-42e7-a3bc-d2fb7d03d59b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).