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type: "Bill"
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title: "Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act."
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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"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 1608"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1608 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Wills", "Trusts", "and Fiduciaries"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["James A. \"Jay\" Leftwich"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-01-03"
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last_action: "2017-02-17"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c26225e1-ff93-4b60-a669-94355fbcf9ba"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1608"
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source_hash: "1a6b103ea5cf9255e9196e0fe8e90c89e427ab1e94e9c0a0cb71ebec7122cfea"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1608 (2017) — Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.
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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
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0033)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0033)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1608ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1608ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101621D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1608)
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## Votes
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- Read third time and passed House — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101621D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-10** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-10** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/13/17
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- **2017-02-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 20, 2017
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- **2017-02-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 33 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c26225e1-ff93-4b60-a669-94355fbcf9ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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