SB 903 Virginia Senate · 2017 Regular Session

Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.

Summary
Creates the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. The bill allows fiduciaries to manage digital property such as computer files, web domains, and virtual currency, and restricts a fiduciary's access to electronic communications such as email, text messages, and social media accounts unless the original user consented to such access in a will, trust, power of attorney, or other record. The bill repeals the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act, which was enacted in 2015. This bill is identical to
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2016
Committee Review
Jan 2017
Senate Passage
Feb 2017
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2017
Signed into Law
Feb 2017
Introduced Dec 22, 2016 Signed Feb 20, 2017
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
15
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Feb 20, 2017
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 80 (effective 7/1/17)
executive
Feb 13, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed House (96-Y 0-N 1-A)
legislature
Jan 30, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
legislature
Dec 22, 2016
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
legislature
Dec 22, 2016
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100085D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
RRepublican
VA
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