republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2322.md

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Bill	Appointment of counsel for accused; felonies punishable by mandatory minimum term of confinement.	Appointment of counsel for accused; felonies punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life. Provides that in any case in which an indigent defendant is charged with any felony punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life, the court shall appoint to represent the defendant two competent, qualified, and experienced attorneys, one of whom shall be from the public defender office if the defendant is charged in a jurisdiction in which a public defender office is established. The bill preserves the requirement under current law for the court to appoint two such attorneys in cases in which an indigent defendant is charged with a Class 1 felony.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2322	Virginia HB 2322 (2025)	bill		enacted	Will Davis	5	50	16	2025-01-08	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/b55e2f5a-7235-446d-acf3-a6addbc3c243	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2322	618354e0b5e1dd2c4b339697aed3be0ea77aa25503466cf8adbee5e07154c9f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2322 (2025) — Appointment of counsel for accused; felonies punishable by mandatory minimum term of confinement.

Appointment of counsel for accused; felonies punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life. Provides that in any case in which an indigent defendant is charged with any felony punishable by a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life, the court shall appoint to represent the defendant two competent, qualified, and experienced attorneys, one of whom shall be from the public defender office if the defendant is charged in a jurisdiction in which a public defender office is established. The bill preserves the requirement under current law for the court to appoint two such attorneys in cases in which an indigent defendant is charged with a Class 1 felony.

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. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N) — 0–96 (fail) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Will Davis — primary (person)
• David Owen — cosponsor (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102394D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-18 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2025-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Reported from Courts of Justice and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2322)
• 2025-01-27 Assigned Approps sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2025-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 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 (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Committee substitute printed 25107687D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-19 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2322)
• 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 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-20 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-20 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-20 Passed Senate with substitute (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 with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N)
• 2025-02-20 Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-20 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-20 House acceded to request
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-20 Delegates: Herring, Keys-Gamarra, Davis
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-20 Senators: Surovell, Carroll Foy, McDougle
• 2025-02-22 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2322ER) 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 (HB2322)
• 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
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 170 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0170)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b55e2f5a-7235-446d-acf3-a6addbc3c243. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).