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Bill	Substitute judge of a district court; per diem compensation.	Per diem compensation of a substitute judge of a district court. Increases from $200 to $350 the per diem compensation of each substitute judge of a district court. The bill also increases the per diem compensation for such judge from $100 to $175 if the substitute judge sits less than four hours or presides over less than a full docket. The bill reflects language in subsection S of Item 31 of Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2024, Special Session I.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2162	Virginia HB 2162 (2025)	bill		enacted	Betsy B. Carr	3	33	11	2025-01-07	2025-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/5790e8d6-660a-4d49-a3e4-790692c29557	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2162	3bbf2987aa4d8e5d68db1d944b00ce873038ef21a0ae5df246ebb4fd5ddd7210	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2162 (2025) — Substitute judge of a district court; per diem compensation.

Per diem compensation of a substitute judge of a district court. Increases from $200 to $350 the per diem compensation of each substitute judge of a district court. The bill also increases the per diem compensation for such judge from $100 to $175 if the substitute judge sits less than four hours or presides over less than a full docket. The bill reflects language in subsection S of Item 31 of Chapter 2 of the Acts of Assembly of 2024, Special Session I.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
• Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101616D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2162)
• 2025-01-23 Assigned Courts sub: Judicial referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting and referring to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Courts of Justice and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Assigned Approps sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-19 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2162ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2162)
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 249 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0249)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5790e8d6-660a-4d49-a3e4-790692c29557. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).