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Bill Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; notice to descendants. Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; noticeto descendants. Provides that no cemetery owned by a county orcity shall be sold to a private owner unless the county or city hasmade a good faith effort to ensure, prior to sale, that the ownershipof such cemetery is vested in the estate of the last owner of recordor that permission for the sale has been granted by the family membersor descendants of such owner. The bill describes a good faith effortas an attempt by the county or city to contact all known family membersand descendants of the last owner of record no less than three separatetimes by phone, mail, or visiting the last known address of recordfor such family members or descendants. The bill requires a countyor city to keep written records of each attempt to contact a familymember or descendant. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2022 HB 615 Virginia HB 615 (2022)
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3 22 6 2022-01-11 2022-04-08 openstates ocd-bill/36d30979-82aa-498f-ad1d-64f4d36af317 https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB615 9b67d3fc9b554b82bbdd4ac29c69fb826592ef5b28228905c7049871d477a177 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Virginia HB 615 (2022) — Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; notice to descendants.

Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; noticeto descendants. Provides that no cemetery owned by a county orcity shall be sold to a private owner unless the county or city hasmade a good faith effort to ensure, prior to sale, that the ownershipof such cemetery is vested in the estate of the last owner of recordor that permission for the sale has been granted by the family membersor descendants of such owner. The bill describes a good faith effortas an attempt by the county or city to contact all known family membersand descendants of the last owner of record no less than three separatetimes by phone, mail, or visiting the last known address of recordfor such family members or descendants. The bill requires a countyor city to keep written records of each attempt to contact a familymember or descendant.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0281 (committee substitute) — source
  2. HB615ER (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101057D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N) — 943 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from General Laws (20-Y 1-N) — 201 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 71 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 2-A) — 130 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Danica A. Roem — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101057D introduction
  • 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2022-01-21 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
  • 2022-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
  • 2022-02-03 Reported from General Laws (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-07 Read first time reading-1
  • 2022-02-08 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2022-02-09 Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2022-02-09 VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N)
  • 2022-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2022-02-10 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2022-03-02 Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 2-A) committee-passage
  • 2022-03-04 Passed by for the day
  • 2022-03-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-03-08 Read third time reading-3
  • 2022-03-08 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2022-03-10 Enrolled
  • 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
  • 2022-03-11 Signed by President
  • 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
  • 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
  • 2022-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36d30979-82aa-498f-ad1d-64f4d36af317. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).