---
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: "HB 2035"
citation: "Virginia HB 2035 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Computer Services and Uses", "Courts of Record"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson H. Miller"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f34b8c0-d6a1-466a-ae6e-bd5077d8f157"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2035"
source_hash: "56c7a1369fff5044180b74ebd684df50fd7c0ec9cf8048d83b4c91d60b15d1f4"
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 2035 (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 (CHAP0289)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0289)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2035ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2035ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102364D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2035)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **36–2** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **11–1** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jackson H. Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102364D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-03** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-06** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **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 289 (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/5f34b8c0-d6a1-466a-ae6e-bd5077d8f157`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).