republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1608.md

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Bill	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	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1608	Virginia HB 1608 (2017)	bill	Wills Trusts and Fiduciaries	enacted	James A. "Jay" Leftwich	3	15	6	2017-01-03	2017-02-17	openstates	ocd-bill/c26225e1-ff93-4b60-a669-94355fbcf9ba	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1608	1a6b103ea5cf9255e9196e0fe8e90c89e427ab1e94e9c0a0cb71ebec7122cfea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1608 (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 (CHAP0033) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1608ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101621D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101621D introduction
• 2017-01-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-01-13 Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-25 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-26 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-01-27 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-02-08 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-10 Enrolled
• 2017-02-10 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-13 Signed by President
• 2017-02-13 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/13/17
• 2017-02-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 20, 2017
• 2017-02-17 Approved by Governor-Chapter 33 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c26225e1-ff93-4b60-a669-94355fbcf9ba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).