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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Electronic filing of land records; fee for paper filing."
+description: "Provides that a clerk of a circuit court that has established an electronic filing system for land records may charge a fee not to exceed $5 per instrument for every land record filed by paper. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 870"
+citation: "Virginia SB 870 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Computer Services and Uses", "Courts of Record"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Richard H. Stuart"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2016-12-09"
+last_action: "2017-02-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93c8231e-c434-4eae-86b8-f9fe34151d68"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB870"
+source_hash: "eb64ceac07fde3f331de028c5312f3cf4ef5a28b1703e0bbcf31cdad76793680"
+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 870 (2017) — Electronic filing of land records; fee for paper filing.
+
+Provides that a clerk of a circuit court that has established an electronic filing system for land records may charge a fee not to exceed $5 per instrument for every land record filed by paper. 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 (CHAP0090)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0090)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB870ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB870ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102470D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB870)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **33–6** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **10–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-12-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102470D `introduction`
+- **2016-12-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-13** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2017-02-14** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-14** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-15** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-15** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
+- **2017-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
+- **2017-02-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 90 (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/93c8231e-c434-4eae-86b8-f9fe34151d68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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