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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging, etc., of wills."
+description: "Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging of wills. Increases from $2 to $5 the fee that the circuit court clerk is required to charge for lodging, indexing, and preserving a will. This bill is identical to HB 305."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 940"
+citation: "Virginia SB 940 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara A. Favola"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-13"
+last_action: "2020-03-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19eed9b1-fb69-4733-8983-737dc3124251"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB940"
+source_hash: "0a9be165095baa793922f25ce5f7bfccdeebbcef9d7628fffb76e7564a07a2a9"
+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 940 (2020) — Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging, etc., of wills.
+
+Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging of wills. Increases from $2 to $5 the fee that the circuit court clerk is required to charge for lodging, indexing, and preserving a will. This bill is identical to HB 305.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0589)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB940ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB940ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB940)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB940)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 4-N) — **17–4** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (82-Y 16-N) — **81–16** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 1-N) — **12–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-13** Presented and ordered printed 20102913D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-13** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-05** Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB940)
+- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-19** Reported from Courts of Justice (17-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-19** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-21** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-25** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-26** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** Passed House (82-Y 16-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** VOTE: Passage (82-Y 16-N)
+- **2020-03-04** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB940ER)
+- **2020-03-05** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-31** Approved by Governor-Chapter 589 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19eed9b1-fb69-4733-8983-737dc3124251`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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