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type: "Bill"
title: "Foreclosure; notice of sale when owner is deceased."
description: "Provides that when the owner of a property to be sold by a trustee pursuant to a deed of trust is deceased, the notice of the sale shall be delivered to the last known address of the deceased owner, any personal representative of the deceased's estate, and any heirs of the deceased as recorded in the land records where the property is located. The bill further provides that the trustee of a deed of trust for property that is sold after the death of the owner shall include (i) any remaining subsequent debts and obligations secured by the deed and (ii) any liens of record inferior to the deed of trust under which the sale is made, with lawful interest, in the list of debts to be paid off using any surplus from the sale prior to paying the remainder of the surplus to the decedent's personal representative. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 422"
citation: "Virginia SB 422 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property and Conveyances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Benton \"Ben\" Chafin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a94ca7f-b50e-4f3b-9244-b018e4ff5e81"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB422"
source_hash: "febe216b7da45294f165f21825dfdfa471e80b4c63bfe60864779d6a60e2cd13"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 422 (2018) — Foreclosure; notice of sale when owner is deceased.
Provides that when the owner of a property to be sold by a trustee pursuant to a deed of trust is deceased, the notice of the sale shall be delivered to the last known address of the deceased owner, any personal representative of the deceased's estate, and any heirs of the deceased as recorded in the land records where the property is located. The bill further provides that the trustee of a deed of trust for property that is sold after the death of the owner shall include (i) any remaining subsequent debts and obligations secured by the deed and (ii) any liens of record inferior to the deed of trust under which the sale is made, with lawful interest, in the list of debts to be paid off using any surplus from the sale prior to paying the remainder of the surplus to the decedent's personal representative. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB422ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB422ER)
2. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106004D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB422S1)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102237D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB422)
## Votes
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **170** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102237D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Reading of substitute waived
- **2018-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 18106004D-S1
- **2018-01-31** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB422S1
- **2018-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 204 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a94ca7f-b50e-4f3b-9244-b018e4ff5e81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).