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Budget Amendments - HB1500 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Minchew
Excess Circuit Court Clerk Fees (language only)

Item 3-5.05 #1h

Item 3-5.05 #1h

Adjustments and Modifications to Tax Collections
Disposition of Excess Fees Collected by Clerks of the Circuit Courts

Language

Page 528, line 41, after "17.1-283." insert:

"In making the calculations of excess fees required by this paragraph, the Compensation Board shall exclude, in the second year, courts in the twentieth and thirty-first judicial circuits, but pay them in accordance with § 17.1-285 in the second year."



Explanation

(This amendment directs the Compensation Board to exempt the twentieth and thirty-first judicial circuits from its calculation of excess fees collected by the clerks of the circuit court in the second year. Under this item, the Commonwealth is entitled to two-thirds of the excess fees collected by clerks of the circuit court as required to be reported under § 17.1-283, while localities are entitled to one-third. This amendment would allow the localities of the twentieth and thirty-first judicial circuits to keep two-thirds of excess fees, while return one-third of excess fee collections to the Commonwealth.)