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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	Index of wills; Rockingham Circuit Court to establish pilot program.	Indexing of wills; pilot program in Rockingham County. Permits the clerk of the Rockingham County Circuit Court to establish a pilot project for an index of wills lodged for safekeeping, with a searchable database available to the public.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 221	Virginia SB 221 (2022)	bill		enacted	Mark D. Obenshain	4	32	7	2022-01-10	2022-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/02f630b4-da7c-4791-855d-4a241305745e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB221	3c46fb0d3ccd268c20d4f884f6bc1dfebf10464116d861baeac53dc13026a42d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 221 (2022) — Index of wills; Rockingham Circuit Court to establish pilot program.

Indexing of wills; pilot program in Rockingham County. Permits the clerk of the Rockingham County Circuit Court to establish a pilot project for an index of wills lodged for safekeeping, with a searchable database available to the public.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0109 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22105829D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102967D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB221ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102967D introduction
• 2022-01-10 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB221)
• 2022-01-19 Reported from Judiciary (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-19 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-02 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-02 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-02 Committee substitute printed 22105829D-S1 substitution
• 2022-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-04 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 22105829D-S1
• 2022-02-04 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB221S1
• 2022-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB221S1)
• 2022-02-07 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-25 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-01 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-03 Enrolled
• 2022-03-03 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB221ER)
• 2022-03-04 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 109 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/02f630b4-da7c-4791-855d-4a241305745e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).