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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging, etc., of wills.	Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging of wills. Increases from $2 to $5 the fee that the circuit court clerk is required to charge for lodging, indexing, and preserving a will. This bill is identical to SB 940.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 305	Virginia HB 305 (2020)	bill		enacted	Patrick A. Hope	3	23	6	2019-12-31	2020-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/7ca93f14-5e11-4c8d-9089-24b197020144	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB305	c8282d70dc94fa66fea26b207995efbf3a41f0f1427d62b08449f19ef702fe40	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 305 (2020) — Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging, etc., of wills.

Circuit court clerk's fee; lodging of wills. Increases from $2 to $5 the fee that the circuit court clerk is required to charge for lodging, indexing, and preserving a will. This bill is identical to SB 940.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB305ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (HB305) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N) — 78–20 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 1-N) — 12–1 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) — 36–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Patrick A. Hope — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-31 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102664D introduction
• 2019-12-31 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-22 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-24 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-27 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-28 Read third time and passed House (79-Y 20-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-28 VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N)
• 2020-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-01-29 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB305)
• 2020-02-12 Reported from Judiciary (12-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) passage
• 2020-02-19 Enrolled
• 2020-02-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB305ER)
• 2020-02-20 Signed by President
• 2020-02-24 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 24, 2020
• 2020-02-24 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 2, 2020
• 2020-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 68 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ca93f14-5e11-4c8d-9089-24b197020144. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).