---
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).