republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-306.md

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Bill	Public defenders; appointment of counsel, caseload exception.	Appointment of counsel; public defenders; caseload exception. Exempts the public defender, in counties and cities where public defender offices are established, from providing defense services for indigent clients if the public defender, with the concurrence of the executive director of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission or his designee, determines that the public defender's current active caseload would preclude the public defender from providing adequate representation to new clients.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 306	Virginia HB 306 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jason S. Ballard	4	35	9	2024-01-05	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/3f799bf9-6d1c-4311-a42e-b6268624661d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB306	939509610507b7e7a9b8c84a646d4ddad5f4a70a9bffbd325135af8fe7866941	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 306 (2024) — Public defenders; appointment of counsel, caseload exception.

Appointment of counsel; public defenders; caseload exception. Exempts the public defender, in counties and cities where public defender offices are established, from providing defense services for indigent clients if the public defender, with the concurrence of the executive director of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission or his designee, determines that the public defender's current active caseload would preclude the public defender from providing adequate representation to new clients.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0524 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB306ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100774D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24100774D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jason S. Ballard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100774D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-26 Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB306)
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by House as amended HB306E
• 2024-02-05 Printed as engrossed 24100774D-E
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB306E)
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-21 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB306ER) passage
• 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB306ER)
• 2024-03-05 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 524 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f799bf9-6d1c-4311-a42e-b6268624661d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).