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Budget Amendments - HB1400 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Rasoul
Co-Patron(s): Kilgore
Fee Cap Waiver - Court Appointed Attorneys

Item 34 #2h

Item 34 #2h

First Year - FY2015 Second Year - FY2016
Judicial Department
Supreme Court FY2015 $0 FY2016 $3,400,000 GF

Language
Page 24, line 3, strike "$12,492,787" and insert "$15,892,787".
Page 24, line 24, after "and" strike "$4,200,000" and insert "$7,600,000".


Explanation
(This amendment provides $3,400,000 in the second year from the general fund to implement the provisions of House Bill 1863, which would amend § 19.2-163 of the Code of Virginia to allow attorneys for indigent parents to seek a waiver of the current fee cap of $120 per case up to an additional $120 per case in juvenile and domestic relations courts and an additional $158 per case for those cases appealed to the circuit court.)