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type: "Bill"
title: "Interment rights; descendant, etc., allowed to petition circuit court of locality."
description: "Interment rights; public property. Allows any immediate family member or descendant of a deceased person buried in an identified family cemetery located on public property owned by a locality or held in trust for such a locality to petition the circuit court of the county or city where the property is located for interment rights upon such property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1055"
citation: "Virginia SB 1055 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58bce318-b6d0-4579-a4ac-675eab92564a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1055"
source_hash: "884210053f0a4db5580ac2fe9c793569a367d6c4835036a98164e31c039c4d9a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 1055 (2025) — Interment rights; descendant, etc., allowed to petition circuit court of locality.
Interment rights; public property. Allows any immediate family member or descendant of a deceased person buried in an identified family cemetery located on public property owned by a locality or held in trust for such a locality to petition the circuit court of the county or city where the property is located for interment rights upon such property.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1017673.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072545.PDF)
3. **General Laws Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1047026.HTML)
4. **General Laws Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1043752.HTML)
5. **House Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052820.HTML)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1060013.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (19-Y 0-N) — **190** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- House Amendments agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102412D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-11** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (19-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** General Laws Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-14** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2025-02-14** Passed House with amendments (96-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-18** House Amendments agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-21** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1055ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-05** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 324 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58bce318-b6d0-4579-a4ac-675eab92564a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).