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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Corporation Commission; access to local land records."
+description: "State Corporation Commission; access to localland records. Adds the State Corporation Commission to the listof agencies that are exempt from paying fees for remote access tolocal land records."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1775"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1775 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Terry G. Kilgore"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2020-12-28"
+last_action: "2021-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fc0280f-427a-4e23-872e-68d05f808dbc"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1775"
+source_hash: "d395b8b1d68c586fb6b806ddba23e0f09bcac3db021f84b0dbda741771b56934"
+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 HB 1775 (2021) — State Corporation Commission; access to local land records.
+
+State Corporation Commission; access to localland records. Adds the State Corporation Commission to the listof agencies that are exempt from paying fees for remote access tolocal land records.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0124** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0124)
+2. **HB1775ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1775ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100750D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1775)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100750D `introduction`
+- **2020-12-28** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from SCC (HB1775)
+- **2021-01-14** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-15** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-20** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2021-01-26** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-22** Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-24** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-26** Impact statement from SCC (HB1775ER)
+- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-27** Signed by President
+- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 20201
+- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 124 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fc0280f-427a-4e23-872e-68d05f808dbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+