republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-292.md

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Bill	Drug Treatment Court Act; renames the Act as the Recovery Court Act.	Drug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Committee. This bill is identical to SB 725.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 292	Virginia HB 292 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jason S. Ballard	3	25	6	2024-01-05	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/56b6c694-67ac-4049-a4ff-0ab082a028a3	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB292	a6a71a1eabf0d3c4b5f32d9ac05296ce03159fa3a914a6bd75b0b4b78499568c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 292 (2024) — Drug Treatment Court Act; renames the Act as the Recovery Court Act.

Drug Treatment Court Act; name change. Renames the Drug Treatment Court Act as the Recovery Court Act. The bill also directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to rename the state Drug Treatment Court Advisory Committee as the Recovery Court Advisory Committee. This bill is identical to SB 725.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0025 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB292ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100773D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jason S. Ballard — primary (person)
• Bill Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• Chris Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
• Delores Oates — cosponsor (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• Jonathan "Jed" Arnold — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Earley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas A. Garrett, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100773D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-02 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB292)
• 2024-02-14 Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-21 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB292ER) passage
• 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB292ER)
• 2024-02-24 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-01 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 25 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56b6c694-67ac-4049-a4ff-0ab082a028a3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).