---
type: "Bill"
title: "Notaries; satisfactory evidence of identity, persons in nursing homes or assisted living facilities."
description: "Notaries; satisfactory evidence of identity;persons in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. Allowsexpired state issued driver's licenses or state issued identificationcards and expired passports to be used as a means of identificationfor notarial purposes for individuals residing in nursing homes orassisted living facilities, provided such expired documents expiredwithin five years of the date of use for such identification purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1222"
citation: "Virginia HB 1222 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy K.L. Tran"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d1b9b0d-8b25-409f-b6b7-605abef65e78"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1222"
source_hash: "d118429c507973c130a0f1c504356005aca922f58760db1269c68b1f083287cc"
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 1222 (2020) — Notaries; satisfactory evidence of identity, persons in nursing homes or assisted living facilities.

Notaries; satisfactory evidence of identity;persons in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. Allowsexpired state issued driver's licenses or state issued identificationcards and expired passports to be used as a means of identificationfor notarial purposes for individuals residing in nursing homes orassisted living facilities, provided such expired documents expiredwithin five years of the date of use for such identification purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0902)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0902)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1222ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1222ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1222)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1222)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
- Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104149D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-27** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (HB1222)
- **2020-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-31** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Enrolled
- **2020-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB1222ER)
- **2020-02-28** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-02** Signed by President
- **2020-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
- **2020-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 902 (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/4d1b9b0d-8b25-409f-b6b7-605abef65e78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).