HB 777

            
2020 SESSION

20101932D

HOUSE BILL NO. 777


Offered January 8, 2020


Prefiled January 7, 2020

A BILL to amend and reenact � 17.1-315 of the Code of 
 Virginia, relating to the duties of the Executive Secretary to the Supreme 
 Court.
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Patron-- Mullin

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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
 
 
1. That � 17.1-315 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:
 
 
� 17.1-315. Duties of Executive Secretary.
 
 
The Executive Secretary to the Supreme Court shall have the 
 following duties:
 
 
1. He shall be the Secretary of the Judicial Council;
 
 
2. He shall be the Secretary of the Judicial Conference;
 
 
3. He shall assist the Chief Justice and the Supreme Court in 
 the administration of the judicial branch of the government to the end that 
 litigation may be expedited and the administration of justice improved in the 
 courts of the Commonwealth; and
 
 
4. He shall be 
 custodian of records of administrative functions performed by persons employed 
 by him or acting under his direction and of aggregated data regarding Virginia 
 courts that may be obtained from systems maintained by his office; and 
 
 
5. He 
 shall have such other duties as may be required of him by the Chief Justice or 
 by the Supreme Court in the performance of the administrative functions of that 
 Court.