republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2035.md

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Bill	Electronic filing of land records; fee for paper filing.	Provides that a clerk of a circuit court that has established an electronic filing system for land records may charge a fee not to exceed $5 per instrument for every land record filed by paper. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2035	Virginia HB 2035 (2017)	bill	Computer Services and Uses Courts of Record	enacted	Jackson H. Miller	3	16	6	2017-01-10	2017-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/5f34b8c0-d6a1-466a-ae6e-bd5077d8f157	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2035	56c7a1369fff5044180b74ebd684df50fd7c0ec9cf8048d83b4c91d60b15d1f4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2035 (2017) — Electronic filing of land records; fee for paper filing.

Provides that a clerk of a circuit court that has established an electronic filing system for land records may charge a fee not to exceed $5 per instrument for every land record filed by paper. 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 (CHAP0289) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2035ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102364D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 36–2 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 11–1 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 95–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 6–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jackson H. Miller — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102364D introduction
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law referral-committee
• 2017-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-01 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-20 Enrolled
• 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-21 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 289 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f34b8c0-d6a1-466a-ae6e-bd5077d8f157. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).