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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clerks of court; Torrens system."
description: "Repeals the provision of law establishing the Torrens system, which provided for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land and established courts of land registration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2769"
citation: "Virginia HB 2769 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property and Conveyances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronnie R. Campbell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3d8fe4e-bc84-4b25-bb67-2ac283ed4dd8"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2769"
source_hash: "33d45df456b7716dcdf4be05225cc25f87e389925a3b80b1834084a7d1b142c5"
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 2769 (2019) — Clerks of court; Torrens system.
Repeals the provision of law establishing the Torrens system, which provided for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land and established courts of land registration.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0326)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0326)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2769ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2769ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19105245D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2769)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **170** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **50** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **100** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ronnie R. Campbell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-18** Presented and ordered printed 19105245D `introduction`
- **2019-01-18** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-01** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 326 (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/d3d8fe4e-bc84-4b25-bb67-2ac283ed4dd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).