Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; notice to descendants.
Summary
Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; noticeto descendants. Provides that no cemetery owned by a county orcity shall be sold to a private owner unless the county or city hasmade a good faith effort to ensure, prior to sale, that the ownershipof such cemetery is vested in the estate of the last owner of recordor that permission for the sale has been granted by the family membersor descendants of such owner. The bill describes a good faith effortas an attempt by the county or city to contact all known family membersand descendants of the last owner of record no less than three separatetimes by phone, mail, or visiting the last known address of recordfor such family members or descendants. The bill requires a countyor city to keep written records of each attempt to contact a familymember or descendant.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 11, 2022
Signed Apr 8, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 8, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 9, 2022
How they voted
39–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Mar 8, 2022
D
Democratic21
95% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
7
Committee
6
Apr 8, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (effective 7/1/22)
executive
Mar 8, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 4, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 2-A)
upper
Feb 10, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
upper
Feb 9, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N)
lower
Feb 3, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from General Laws (20-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 27, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 21, 2022
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101057D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Danica Roem
DDemocratic
Ask Maddy
·
AI policy assistant
Ask Maddy about HB 615
Scope: VA
Hi! I can help you understand HB 615. What would you like to know?
Try one of these
i
Maddy answers using official bill text and legislative records. Always verify before sharing.
Sources cited inline