HB 1605 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Uniform Trust Code; expands definitions of "independent qualified trustee" and "qualified trustee."

Summary

Uniform Trust Code; qualified trustee; definition. Expands the definitions of "independent qualified trustee" and "qualified trustee" to authorize additional entities to serve as an independent qualified trustee or a qualified trustee of a qualified self-settled spendthrift trust. This bill is identical to SB 1116.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House of Delegates Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Feb 2025

Signed into Law

Mar 2025

Introduced Jan 3, 2025 Signed Mar 18, 2025

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What changed between versions

Enrolled → Chaptered · 1 edit

MINOR

This bill formalizes the official publication of HB 1605 as Chapter 5 of the 2025 Virginia Acts of Assembly. The substantive content of the Uniform Trust Code amendments remains unchanged from the enrolled version, with only formatting adjustments for the final chaptered version.

TECHNICAL

Formatting changes to convert enrolled bill text into official chaptered format with proper spacing and chapter numbering.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 7, 2025 · House of Delegates Jan 23, 2025

How they voted

38–0

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 40

Feb 7, 2025

D Democratic21

21 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican19

17 Yea 2

89% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Mar 18, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by Governor-Chapter 5 (Effective 07/01/25)

executive

Feb 15, 2025

Upper · Passed

Signed by President

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Signed by Speaker

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1605ER)

lower

Feb 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)

upper

Feb 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 5, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)

upper

Jan 24, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

upper

Jan 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 10, 2025

Committee

Assigned Courts sub: Civil

lower

Jan 3, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors