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type: "Bill"
title: "Administrative assistants; employees serving circuit court judges."
description: "Judicial assistants. Provides that a judicialassistant serving a circuit court judge and whose position is fundedin whole or in part by a county or city shall serve at the pleasureand under the sole management and supervision of the presiding judgeof the circuit court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1725"
citation: "Virginia HB 1725 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey L. Campbell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b7abcd4-0463-43e3-bf2c-86def1612264"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1725"
source_hash: "5379bda9bcba74b657d8b3f057ce25d5ca669de36bcba812c2f171462eed44be"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1725 (2020) — Administrative assistants; employees serving circuit court judges.
Judicial assistants. Provides that a judicialassistant serving a circuit court judge and whose position is fundedin whole or in part by a county or city shall serve at the pleasureand under the sole management and supervision of the presiding judgeof the circuit court.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1061)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1061)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1725ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1725ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1725S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1725S1)
4. **HB1725H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1725H1)
5. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1725)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1725)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **320** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (11-Y 3-N) — **113** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 99-N) — **198** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — **61** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute (37-Y 2-N) — **372** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 0-N) — **930** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **200** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jeffrey L. Campbell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 20105510D `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- **2020-01-27** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-31** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1725)
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Judiciary with substitute (11-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Committee substitute printed 20108661D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-02-24** Committee substitute agreed to 20108661D-S1
- **2020-02-24** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1725S1
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate with substitute (37-Y 2-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB1725S1)
- **2020-02-26** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-26** Passed by for the day
- **2020-02-27** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-27** Senate substitute rejected by House 20108661D-S1 (1-Y 99-N)
- **2020-02-27** VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 99-N)
- **2020-03-02** Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** Senate requested conference committee
- **2020-03-03** House acceded to request
- **2020-03-04** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2020-03-04** Conferees appointed by House
- **2020-03-05** Amended by conference committee
- **2020-03-05** Conference substitute printed 20109324D-H1
- **2020-03-05** Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-05** VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-07** Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-18** Enrolled
- **2020-03-18** Signed by President
- **2020-03-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB1725ER)
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- **2020-03-20** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1061 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b7abcd4-0463-43e3-bf2c-86def1612264`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).