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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Small Estate Act; funeral expenses and disposition, refusal to pay or deliver small asset."
+description: "Virginia Small Estate Act; funeral expenses and disposition, refusal to pay or deliver small asset."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 870"
+citation: "Virginia SB 870 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cosgrove"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-02"
+last_action: "2023-03-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14e575df-360a-42a5-be87-0bc991bb7bf2"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB870"
+source_hash: "8124825ce5b1a310908522cc804ca1d2197b8b3bced2305ef25e7c43291db40e"
+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 (2023) — Virginia Small Estate Act; funeral expenses and disposition, refusal to pay or deliver small asset.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0414** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0414)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 23104750D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB870S1)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102082D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB870)
+4. **SB870ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB870ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 1-N 1-A) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (12-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cosgrove — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102082D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-02** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-11** Impact statement from DPB (SB870)
+- **2023-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-18** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (12-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-18** Committee substitute printed 23104750D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-23** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2023-01-23** Committee substitute agreed to 23104750D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-23** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB870S1 `substitution`
+- **2023-01-24** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 1-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB870S1)
+- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-13** Reported from Courts of Justice (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-16** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB870ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB870ER)
+- **2023-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 414 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14e575df-360a-42a5-be87-0bc991bb7bf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+