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type: "Bill"
title: "Clerks of court; disclosure of tax information."
description: "Broadens an exemption that allows beneficiaries and heirs to obtain confidential information about an estate from a clerk of court so that it also includes the commissioner of accounts making a settlement of accounts filed in such estate."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2768"
citation: "Virginia HB 2768 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronnie R. Campbell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7468d3b-9421-47b2-be0d-904753351601"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2768"
source_hash: "71f9519ddd2630d66205a9a2522a73a8b86333ec0879d9894fb3f3638966e010"
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 2768 (2019) — Clerks of court; disclosure of tax information.
Broadens an exemption that allows beneficiaries and heirs to obtain confidential information about an estate from a clerk of court so that it also includes the commissioner of accounts making a settlement of accounts filed in such estate.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0261)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0261)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2768ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2768ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19105244D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2768)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **200** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Ronnie R. Campbell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-18** Presented and ordered printed 19105244D `introduction`
- **2019-01-18** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 261 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7468d3b-9421-47b2-be0d-904753351601`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).