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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Death certificate; amendments other than correction of information."
+description: "Establishes a process for amending death certificates to change the name of the deceased, the deceased's parent or spouse, or the informant; the marital status of the deceased; or the place of residence of the deceased when the place of residence is outside the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 1048"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1048 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Courts of Record", "Health", "Oaths", "Affirmations and Bonds", "Records Retention"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Emmett W. Hanger, Jr."]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-05"
+last_action: "2017-03-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c849be4-18c0-4f09-9aa7-1034d0015a6c"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1048"
+source_hash: "650b57135dffc88d8649dd1666324a82f0538f7c5ca7f434c1ea8b8e99010755"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 1048 (2017) — Death certificate; amendments other than correction of information.
+
+Establishes a process for amending death certificates to change the name of the deceased, the deceased's parent or spouse, or the informant; the marital status of the deceased; or the place of residence of the deceased when the place of residence is outside the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0285)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0285)
+2. **House: Committee substitute printed 17105319D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1048H1)
+3. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1048ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1048ER)
+4. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104643D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1048S1)
+5. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101039D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1048)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
+- House substitute agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101039D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-05** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-16** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-30** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2017-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 17104643D-S1
+- **2017-01-30** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1048S1
+- **2017-02-03** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-13** Committee substitute agreed to 17105319D-H1
+- **2017-02-13** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1048H1
+- **2017-02-13** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2017-02-15** Title replaced 17105319D-H1
+- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
+- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 285 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c849be4-18c0-4f09-9aa7-1034d0015a6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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