republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/sb-44.md

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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	Cemeteries on private property; registration by localities.	Registration by localities of cemeteries on private property. Clarifies that the requirement for the governing body of a locality to publish on its website notice of the public sale of any publicly owned property that contains a known cemetery, graveyard, or other place of burial does not meet the requirement in current law for a newspaper publication of such notice. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	SB 44	Virginia SB 44 (2026)	bill		enacted	Danica A. Roem	7	41	10	2025-11-22	2026-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/38f67d70-3af2-439d-a3ae-68836681f328	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB44	372f040a7f4039dcd866e26b6b83f70886850d186827c82bee69a747709900de	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 44 (2026) — Cemeteries on private property; registration by localities.

Registration by localities of cemeteries on private property. Clarifies that the requirement for the governing body of a locality to publish on its website notice of the public sale of any publicly owned property that contains a known cemetery, graveyard, or other place of burial does not meet the requirement in current law for a newspaper publication of such notice. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Counties, Cities and Towns Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. House Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Subcommittee #2 Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• H VOTE: — 73–23 (pass) · lower
• Adopt Conference Committee Report R — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• Passage R — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) — 19–2 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Accede Conference Committee R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• H VOTE: — 78–20 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Concur House Amendment R — 0–39 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Danica A. Roem — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-11-22 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100758D filing, introduction
• 2025-11-22 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2026-01-15 Fiscal Impact statement From CLG (1/15/2026 3:16 pm)
• 2026-01-19 Reported from Local Government (13-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2026-01-20 Rules suspended
• 2026-01-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-01-20 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
• 2026-01-21 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-01-21 Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
• 2026-01-22 Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2026-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2026-02-03 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2026-02-17 Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2026-02-19 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
• 2026-02-19 House subcommittee offered
• 2026-02-20 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (19-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-02-25 committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2026-02-25 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2026-02-25 Passed House with amendment (78-Y 20-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-02-27 Counties, Cities and Towns Amendment rejected by Senate amendment-failure
• 2026-03-02 House insisted on amendments
• 2026-03-02 House requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2026-03-04 Senate acceded to request Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-03-04 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2026-03-04 Senate Conferees: Roem, Aird, Hackworth
• 2026-03-10 Conferees appointed by House
• 2026-03-10 House Conferees: Sewell, McGuire, Ware
• 2026-03-14 Conference Report released
• 2026-03-14 Conference report agreed to by House (73-Y 23-N 0-A) committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-14 Conference report agreed to by Senate (29-Y 10-N 0-A) committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-30 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-30 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB44ER) passage
• 2026-03-30 Signed by President passage
• 2026-03-31 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-03-31 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2026-03-31 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter479 (Effective 7/1/2027) executive-signature
• 2026-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/38f67d70-3af2-439d-a3ae-68836681f328. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).