republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/sb-261.md

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Bill	Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty.	Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty. Provides that any account filed by a fiduciary with the commissioner of accounts and annual report filed by a guardian with the local department of social services shall be signed under oath and that the punishment for making a false statement or entry in such a filing is a civil penalty of not more than $500. This bill incorporates SB 308 and is identical to HB 1166.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 261	Virginia SB 261 (2020)	bill		enacted	A. Benton "Ben" Chafin	4	31	6	2020-01-03	2020-03-06	openstates	ocd-bill/07d18e3c-00ae-4aff-905c-aa8851d3eca0	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB261	c2b28da57b3dd917137c7529a1a64ffb0974c887cc8166855478d8bc05aa2c20	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 261 (2020) — Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty.

Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty. Provides that any account filed by a fiduciary with the commissioner of accounts and annual report filed by a guardian with the local department of social services shall be signed under oath and that the punishment for making a false statement or entry in such a filing is a civil penalty of not more than $500. This bill incorporates SB 308 and is identical to HB 1166. 

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0190) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB261ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB261S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB261S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N) — 98–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — primary (person)
• William M. Stanley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104495D introduction
• 2020-01-03 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-01-16 Assigned Judiciary sub: Civil Law referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Incorporates SB308 (Stanley)
• 2020-02-05 Committee substitute printed 20105830D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-10 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 20105830D-S1
• 2020-02-10 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB261S1
• 2020-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-10 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB261S1)
• 2020-02-14 Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-19 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-02-19 Passed House (99-Y 1-N) passage
• 2020-02-19 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 1-N)
• 2020-02-24 Enrolled
• 2020-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB261ER)
• 2020-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-25 Signed by President
• 2020-02-28 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 28, 2020
• 2020-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 6, 2020
• 2020-03-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 190 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07d18e3c-00ae-4aff-905c-aa8851d3eca0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).