republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-102.md

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Bill	Wills and trusts; tangible personal property, nonexoneration.	Wills and trusts; tangible personal property;nonexoneration. Provides that if a trust instrument that was revocable,as defined in relevant law, immediately before the settlor's deathrefers to a written statement or list of items of tangible personalproperty and their intended recipients with reasonable certainty andis signed by the settlor, such written statement or list shall begiven the effect of a specific bequest although it does not satisfythe requirements for a trust instrument. The bill also provides thatreal or personal property that is the subject of a specific deviseor bequest in a trust instrument that was revocable immediatelybefore the settlor's death shall be passed without the right of exoneration.Under current law, the provisions that govern separate writing identifyingrecipients of tangible personal property apply only to wills, andthe provisions that govern the nonexoneration of a specific deviseor bequest of real or personal property apply only to wills and transferon death deeds.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 102	Virginia SB 102 (2024)	bill		enacted	Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr.	3	26	7	2024-01-03	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/d71915a4-3ada-4a1d-9784-63905ed647f2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB102	f72c30d9218b0746bc221e77e7cf698ab51ebe858364c9fb58fe0543f07d3014	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 102 (2024) — Wills and trusts; tangible personal property, nonexoneration.

Wills and trusts; tangible personal property;nonexoneration. Provides that if a trust instrument that was revocable,as defined in relevant law, immediately before the settlor's deathrefers to a written statement or list of items of tangible personalproperty and their intended recipients with reasonable certainty andis signed by the settlor, such written statement or list shall begiven the effect of a specific bequest although it does not satisfythe requirements for a trust instrument. The bill also provides thatreal or personal property that is the subject of a specific deviseor bequest in a trust instrument that was revocable immediatelybefore the settlor's death shall be passed without the right of exoneration.Under current law, the provisions that govern separate writing identifyingrecipients of tangible personal property apply only to wills, andthe provisions that govern the nonexoneration of a specific deviseor bequest of real or personal property apply only to wills and transferon death deeds.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0576 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102489D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB102ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 0-N) — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102489D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-03 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-02-12 Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-13 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-13 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB102ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 576 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0576)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d71915a4-3ada-4a1d-9784-63905ed647f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).