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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1913: Land records; recording and indexing fees.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1913 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Land records; recording and indexing fees. Primary sponsor: Atoosa Reaser (Democratic). It lists 6 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (February 17, 2025): Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Land records; recording and indexing fees. Provides that no clerk of a circuit court shall assess separate recording and indexing fees for one document that contains two or more instruments that may serve independent legal purposes, unless the person presenting such document or instruments requests that such document or instruments be recorded and indexed in more than a single instance. The bill also provides that no recordation tax shall be required of a quitclaim deed between a grantor and grantee when no consideration has passed between the parties, provided that such quitclaim deed shows on its face that no consideration has passed.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Atoosa ReaserPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse27
Nadarius ClarkCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse84
J.R. HensonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse19
Mike JonesCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate15
Karen Keys-GamarraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse7
Marty MartinezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse29
Irene ShinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse8

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
  2. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1913)
  3. Committee substitute printed 25106982D-S1
  4. Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
  5. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1913)
  6. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  7. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  8. Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N)
  9. Printed as engrossed 25102755D-E
  10. Engrossed by House as amended
  11. Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to
  12. Read second time

Showing 12 most recent of 19 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source