Circuit court clerks; fees; Technology Trust Fund Fee; report. Increases the Technology Trust Fund Fee from $5 to $8. The bill also increases the amount of the fee to be allocated for one of the purposes as described in current law from $4 to $6. The bill authorizes the remaining $2 of the fee to be allocated to individual circuit court clerks' offices for one of the purposes as described in current law. The bill directs (i) the Virginia Court Clerks Association to collect data from each office of the clerk in each circuit court and (ii) the Compensation Board to aggregate such data and submit a report summarizing the information to the Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by December 1, 2026.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 17.1-279
Courts of Justice Substitute: 17.1-279
Finance and Appropriations Substitute: 17.1-279