At a meeting of the House Courts Committee, members referred five House bills to other standing committees by voice vote and certified panels of judicial nominees for several court levels, with one juvenile court nominee pulled from the block for individual consideration.

The committee referred three bills to the Public Safety Committee: House Bill 1569 (patron: Delegate Wiley), House Bill 1597 (patron: Delegate Fagan), and House Bill 1692 (patron: Delegate Campbell). The committee also referred House Bill 1662 (patron: Delegate Jones) to the Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee and House Bill 1731 (patron: Delegate Delaney) to the Health and Human Services Committee. Motions and seconds for the referrals were recorded as "so moved" and "properly seconded" in the transcript; all referrals were approved by voice vote and no roll-call tallies were recorded.

The committee then took up certification of judicial candidates. A block of circuit court nominees seeking re-election was approved after the chair asked whether any member wished to pull a candidate; no requests were made. The committee likewise approved the slate of general district court nominees after no members asked to pull any names.

During the juvenile and domestic relations district court certification, Delegate Carlson asked to pull "the honorable Gilbert Berger" from the block for separate consideration; the committee removed Berger from the block and then completed the certification. The transcript records that the nominee was pulled and that, after consideration of the revised block, members approved the remaining nominees by voice vote.

The committee also certified candidates for the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission after no members requested a pull from that block. The transcript records that the list of judicial candidates had been interviewed on Friday, December 13 by the Joint Courts Committee.

There were no recorded roll-call vote tallies in the transcript; approvals were taken by voice vote with members saying "aye." The meeting concluded with the chair stating there was no further business and the committee rising.