Virginia House of Delegates
2025 Regular Session
House Minutes
Don Scott, Speaker
G. Paul Nardo, Clerk
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Called to order at 12 m. by Don Scott, Speaker

Mace placed on Speaker's table by Sergeant at Arms

Prayer offered by Pastor Eugene Cowan II, New Light Full Gospel Baptist Church, Virginia Beach [at the request of Delegate Feggans]

Delegate Herring led the House in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America

Attendance roll call - Quorum present

Leave of Absence granted: Delegate Marshall

Journal for Monday, January 13, 2025, approved by the Speaker

HJR 476 (Election of Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, and the Auditor of Public Accounts) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to (Y-99 N-0 A-0)  

Bills presented, ordered printed, and referred pursuant to House Rule 37

Resolutions presented and laid on Speaker's table pursuant to House Rule 39(a)

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HJ 1 - Privileges and Elections Committee Substitute agreed to, Agreed to (Y-51 N-48 A-0)

Message from Senate: HJR 476 agreed to

Message from Senate: Nominations made for certain judicial offices of the Commonwealth

HR 472 (Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to 

HR 473 (Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to 

HR 474 (Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to 

HR 475 (Nominating persons to be elected as members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission) offered by Delegate Maldonado and agreed to    

HR 476 (Nominating a person to be elected as Auditor of Public Accounts) offered by Delegate Price and agreed to     

HR 472 (Electing persons to circuit court judgeships) – (Y-99 N-0  A-0) 

HR 473 (Electing persons to general district court judgeships) – (Y-98 N-0 A-0) 

HR 474 (Electing persons to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships) – (Y-98 N-0 A-0)  

HR 475 (Electing persons as members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission) – (Y-99 N-0 A-0) 

HR 476 (Electing a person as the Auditor of Public Accounts) – (Y-97 N-0  A-0)  

Motion by Delegate Maldonado to waive the reading of the report of the Joint Committee agreed to (Y-99 N-0 A-0)

Election of Circuit Court Judges 

William Edward Tomko, III, Sixth Judicial Circuit

Christopher R. Papile, Seventh Judicial Circuit

David A. Oblon, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit

James R. Swanson, Twenty-third Judicial Circuit

 

Election of General District Court Judges 

Erin L. Evans-Bedois, First Judicial District

Sandra S. Menago, Second Judicial District

Nicole A. Belote, Fifth Judicial District

Elbert D. Mumphery, Sixth Judicial District

Robert G. Saunders, Seventh Judicial District

Jody H. Fariss, Tenth Judicial District

Darrel W. Puckett, Tenth Judicial District

Calvin S. Spencer, Jr., Tenth Judicial District

Thomas Stark, IV, Eleventh Judicial District

Keith Nelson Hurley, Twelfth Judicial District

Lauren A. Caudill, Fourteenth Judicial District

George Barton Chucker, Fourteenth Judicial District

Hugh S. Campbell, Fifteenth Judicial District

Angela M. O'Connor, Fifteenth Judicial District

Matthew J. Quatrara, Sixteenth Judicial District

Jason S. Rucker, Seventeenth Judicial District

Susan F. Earman, Nineteenth Judicial District

Joan Ziglar, Twenty-first Judicial District

Christopher M. Billias, Twenty-fifth Judicial District

Travis B. Lee, Twenty-eighth Judicial District

Henry A. Barringer, Twenty-ninth Judicial District

Turkessa B. Rollins, Thirty-first Judicial District

 

Election of Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges 

Lori B. Galbraith, First Judicial District

Cheshire I'Anson Eveleigh, Second Judicial District

Timothy J. Quick, Second Judicial District

Lauri D. Hogge, Fourth Judicial District

Devon R. Paige Charity, Fourth Judicial District

Christopher B. Ackerman, Sixth Judicial District

Rebecca M. Robinson, Seventh Judicial District

Jeffrey C. Rountree, Seventh Judicial District

Gregory C. Bane, Eighth Judicial District

Jay Edward Dugger, Eighth Judicial District

Robert B. Wilson, V, Eighth Judicial District

Phillip T. DiStanislao, Jr., Eleventh Judicial District

Theresa J. Royall, Eleventh Judicial District

Brice E. Lambert, Thirteenth Judicial District

Joseph A. Vance, IV, Fifteenth Judicial District

Barbara G. Lowe, Sixteenth Judicial District

Maha-Rebekah R. Abejuela, Nineteenth Judicial District

Kimberly R. Belongia, Twenty-first Judicial District

Stephanie M. Ayers, Twenty-fourth Judicial District

Jennifer E. Stille, Twenty-fourth Judicial District

Susan B. Read, Twenty-fifth Judicial District

Rachel E. Figura, Twenty-sixth Judicial District

Chad A. Logan, Twenty-sixth Judicial District

Kimberly Michelle Jenkins, Thirtieth Judicial District

Lisa Michelle Baird, Thirty-first Judicial District

 

Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission

Cozy E. Bailey, Sr.

Kenneth R. Melvin

Terrie N. Thompson

 

Auditor of Public Accounts

Staci A. Henshaw

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HJ 2 - Delegate Cherry floor amendment No. 1 passed by (Y-52 N-47 A-0), Delegate Cherry floor amendments Nos. 2 and 3 passed by (Y-51 N-48 A-0), Agreed to (Y-55 N-44 A-0)
HJ 9 - Privileges and Elections Committee Substitute agreed to, Agreed to (Y-58 N-35 A-2)

Motion by Delegate Herring to adjourn agreed to

House adjourned at 3:00 p.m. to meet on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 12 m.