---
type: "Bill"
title: "Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act."
description: "Creates the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. The bill allows fiduciaries to manage digital property such as computer files, web domains, and virtual currency, and restricts a fiduciary's access to electronic communications such as email, text messages, and social media accounts unless the original user consented to such access in a will, trust, power of attorney, or other record. The bill repeals the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act, which was enacted in 2015. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 903"
citation: "Virginia SB 903 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Wills", "Trusts", "and Fiduciaries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark D. Obenshain"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-12-22"
last_action: "2017-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3e946a6-dc20-4bef-80bc-c034c25f39af"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB903"
source_hash: "6701d70855165ad0266a5fb13a4e59f608fd065eb8cc0fc57b371c43a3e463ac"
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 903 (2017) — Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.

Creates the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. The bill allows fiduciaries to manage digital property such as computer files, web domains, and virtual currency, and restricts a fiduciary's access to electronic communications such as email, text messages, and social media accounts unless the original user consented to such access in a will, trust, power of attorney, or other record. The bill repeals the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act, which was enacted in 2015. 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 (CHAP0080)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0080)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB903ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB903ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100085D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB903)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-22** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100085D `introduction`
- **2016-12-22** 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 (96-Y 0-N 1-A) `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 80 (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/f3e946a6-dc20-4bef-80bc-c034c25f39af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).