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type: "Bill"
title: "Circuit court clerks; electronic transfer of certain documents."
description: "Permits circuit court clerks to transfer electronically, or provide electronic access to, documents related to certain real property information to certain public officials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1515"
citation: "Virginia HB 1515 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Computer Services and Uses", "Courts of Record", "Taxation", "Wills", "Trusts", "and Fiduciaries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James A. \"Jay\" Leftwich"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-22"
last_action: "2017-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e37cb43f-978e-4e47-9d37-0fdf0bdab945"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1515"
source_hash: "fde6d0a31e58ccb94e556f63cd10c3d76786c9b90b4236ce8c6aa46145400e35"
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 HB 1515 (2017) — Circuit court clerks; electronic transfer of certain documents.
Permits circuit court clerks to transfer electronically, or provide electronic access to, documents related to certain real property information to certain public officials.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0042)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0042)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1515ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1515ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101620D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1515)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17101620D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1515E)
## Votes
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **140** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **90** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-12-22** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101620D `introduction`
- **2016-12-22** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-01-25** Engrossed by House as amended HB1515E
- **2017-01-25** Printed as engrossed 17101620D-E
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-10** Enrolled
- **2017-02-10** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
- **2017-02-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/13/17
- **2017-02-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 20, 2017
- **2017-02-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 42 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e37cb43f-978e-4e47-9d37-0fdf0bdab945`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).