republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-497.md

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Bill	Judge; Second Judicial Circuit, resident judge in Counties of Accomack and Northampton.	Judge; Second Judicial Circuit; resident judge in Counties of Accomack and Northampton. Requires that one judge from the Second Judicial Circuit be a resident and domiciliary of the County of Accomack or Northampton and preside regularly in the Counties of Accomack and Northampton.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 497	Virginia SB 497 (2022)	bill		enacted	Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.	4	30	6	2022-01-12	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/249d08f1-73af-409d-86bc-e894f7effb59	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB497	7f98c520e2aaca8595f2761a0de5c8facd08a197b93bcbfa63bb931404e756ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 497 (2022) — Judge; Second Judicial Circuit, resident judge in Counties of Accomack and Northampton.

Judge; Second Judicial Circuit; resident judge in Counties of Accomack and Northampton. Requires that one judge from the Second Judicial Circuit be a resident and domiciliary of the County of Accomack or Northampton and preside regularly in the Counties of Accomack and Northampton.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0596 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101825D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22101825D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB497ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)
• Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101825D introduction
• 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-01-24 Reported from Judiciary with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB497)
• 2022-01-25 Passed by for the day
• 2022-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-01-27 Reading of amendments waived
• 2022-01-27 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2022-01-27 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB497E
• 2022-01-27 Printed as engrossed 22101825D-E
• 2022-01-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB497E)
• 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
• 2022-02-22 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 (SB497ER)
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 596 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/249d08f1-73af-409d-86bc-e894f7effb59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).