HD3 - A Retention Schedule for Court Records

  • Published: 1991
  • Author: Joint Subcommittee
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 69 (Regular Session, 1986)

Executive Summary:
Pursuant to House Joint Resolution No. 69 (see Appendix A), the 1986 Session of the General Assembly authorized a study to review alternatives and recommend proposals concerning a retention and disposition policy for circuit court records in the Commonwealth.

C. Hardaway Marks, a Delegate from Hopewell, and sponsor of the study resolution, was selected to chair the joint study subcommittee. Other members of the General Assembly chosen from the House of Delegates to serve on this subcommittee were W. Tayloe Murphy, Jr., and Robert W. Ackerman, and from the Senate were Virgil H. Goode, Jr., and Thomas J. Michie, Jr. Additionally, two circuit court judges, Robert C. Goad and Robert W. Stewart; two clerks of circuit courts, Charlton E. Gnadt and David A. Bell; and two citizen members, Lawrence A. Belcher and R. Breckinridge Daughtrey, were appointed to serve on the subcommittee.

In order to receive sufficient input and response to interim proposals, the study was carried over through 1989. A final legislative proposal was submitted to the 1990 Session of the General Assembly for approval following ratification of legislation submitted to the 1989 Session.