republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-903.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	SB 903	Virginia SB 903 (2017)	bill	Wills Trusts and Fiduciaries	enacted	Mark D. Obenshain	3	15	5	2016-12-22	2017-02-20	openstates	ocd-bill/f3e946a6-dc20-4bef-80bc-c034c25f39af	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB903	6701d70855165ad0266a5fb13a4e59f608fd065eb8cc0fc57b371c43a3e463ac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 903 (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 (CHAP0080) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB903ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100085D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 12–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House — 96–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Courts of Justice — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-22 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100085D introduction
• 2016-12-22 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-01-18 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-30 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-30 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-13 Passed House (96-Y 0-N 1-A) passage
• 2017-02-14 Enrolled
• 2017-02-14 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-15 Signed by President
• 2017-02-15 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
• 2017-02-15 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
• 2017-02-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 80 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f3e946a6-dc20-4bef-80bc-c034c25f39af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).