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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: "SB 903"
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citation: "Virginia SB 903 (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: ["Mark D. Obenshain"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2016-12-22"
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last_action: "2017-02-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3e946a6-dc20-4bef-80bc-c034c25f39af"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB903"
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source_hash: "6701d70855165ad0266a5fb13a4e59f608fd065eb8cc0fc57b371c43a3e463ac"
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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 SB 903 (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 (CHAP0080)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0080)
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2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB903ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB903ER)
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3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100085D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB903)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed House — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-12-22** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100085D `introduction`
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- **2016-12-22** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-18** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-13** Passed House (96-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage`
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- **2017-02-14** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-14** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-15** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-15** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
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- **2017-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
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- **2017-02-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 80 (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/f3e946a6-dc20-4bef-80bc-c034c25f39af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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