---
type: "Bill"
title: "Index of wills; Rockingham Circuit Court to establish pilot program."
description: "Indexing of wills; pilot program in Rockingham County. Permits the clerk of the Rockingham County Circuit Court to establish a pilot project for an index of wills lodged for safekeeping, with a searchable database available to the public."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 221"
citation: "Virginia SB 221 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark D. Obenshain"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02f630b4-da7c-4791-855d-4a241305745e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB221"
source_hash: "3c46fb0d3ccd268c20d4f884f6bc1dfebf10464116d861baeac53dc13026a42d"
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 221 (2022) — Index of wills; Rockingham Circuit Court to establish pilot program.

Indexing of wills; pilot program in Rockingham County. Permits the clerk of the Rockingham County Circuit Court to establish a pilot project for an index of wills lodged for safekeeping, with a searchable database available to the public.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0109** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0109)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105829D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB221S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102967D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB221)
4. **SB221ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB221ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102967D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB221)
- **2022-01-19** Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-19** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-02** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-02** Committee substitute printed 22105829D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 22105829D-S1
- **2022-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB221S1
- **2022-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB221S1)
- **2022-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-25** Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-03** Enrolled
- **2022-03-03** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB221ER)
- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 109 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02f630b4-da7c-4791-855d-4a241305745e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).