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Bill Real estate settlement agents; choice of settlement agent. Real estate settlement agents; emergency. Clarifies that a seller shall not be prohibited from retaining a licensed attorney to represent his interests and provide legal advice pertaining to escrow, closing, or settlement services. This bill is declarative of existing law. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to HB 1364. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2022 SB 775 Virginia SB 775 (2022)
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Virginia SB 775 (2022) — Real estate settlement agents; choice of settlement agent.

Real estate settlement agents; emergency. Clarifies that a seller shall not be prohibited from retaining a licensed attorney to represent his interests and provide legal advice pertaining to escrow, closing, or settlement services. This bill is declarative of existing law. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to HB 1364.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0670 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 22106501D (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB775ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 980 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 1-A) — 130 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)
  • Jill Holtzman Vogel — cosponsor (person)
  • T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-02-11 Unanimous consent to introduce
  • 2022-02-11 Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 22106501D introduction
  • 2022-02-11 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2022-02-14 Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-15 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-15 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2022-02-15 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-15 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
  • 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
  • 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2022-02-22 Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-24 Read second time reading-2
  • 2022-02-25 Read third time reading-3
  • 2022-02-25 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2022-02-25 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-03-01 Enrolled
  • 2022-03-01 Signed by Speaker
  • 2022-03-02 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
  • 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 670 (effective 4/11/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d5b873d-68b6-43f1-898e-b3d659f1d5a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).