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Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries (1995 thru present)
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  • 2008 - SB 213 Pleadings; naming represented person or fiduciary as party to an action.
  • 2008 - SB 467 Port Authority; establish trust to help offset its postemployment benefits liability.
  • 2009 - HB 1593 Perpetual care trust fund overpayments; permits a cemetery company to recover.
  • 2009 - HB 2302 Fiduciaries; naming fiduciary or subject of fiduciary relationship as party to an action.
  • 2009 - HB 2348 Fiduciaries distributing intangible personal property to file informative tax returns; repealed.
  • 2009 - SB 855 Uniform Power of Attorney Act; created.
  • 2010 - HB 56 Testamentary trustees; relief of duty to file an inventory or annual accounts.
  • 2010 - HB 228 Personal property tax relief; deletes requirement that vehicle held in trust can qualify.
  • 2010 - HB 664 Commissioner of accounts; prohibiting General Assembly members from serving.
  • 2010 - HB 719 Uniform Power of Attorney Act; established within Code of Virginia.
  • 2010 - HB 1193 Fiduciaries; actions or suits involving.
  • 2010 - SB 43 Testamentary trustees; relief of duty to file an inventory or annual accounts.
  • 2010 - SB 159 Uniform Power of Attorney Act; established within Code of Virginia.
  • 2010 - SB 204 Uniform Power of Attorney Act; established within Code of Virginia.
  • 2010 - SB 295 Financial institutions and services; revising and recodifying laws.
  • 2011 - HB 1506 Foreclosure procedures; assignment of deed of trust.
  • 2011 - HB 1880 Disabled individuals; taxation of trusts established therefor.
  • 2011 - HB 2133 Land trusts; trustee named in deed is unable to serve, beneficiaries shall name a successor trustee.
  • 2011 - HB 2366 Out-of-state trust institutions; any national bank to serve as trustee without office in State.
  • 2011 - HB 2473 Foreclosure procedures; assignment of deed of trust.
  • 2011 - SB 750 Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act; established.
  • 2011 - SB 795 Foreclosure procedures; makes various changes to procedures.
  • 2011 - SB 836 Notice of foreclosure; notify owner 30 days before proposed sale.
  • 2011 - SB 1071 Irrevocable trusts; trustee's power to appoint assets into second trust.
  • 2011 - SB 1072 Inter vivos QTIP trusts; if established by donor spouse not to be included in estate.
  • 2011 - SB 1175 Disabled individuals; taxation of trusts established therefor.
  • 2011 - SB 1423 Wills & trusts; formula clauses referring to federal estate & generation-skipping transfer tax laws.
  • 2012 - HB 28 Foreclosure procedures; assignment of deed of trust.
  • 2012 - HB 125 Uniform Power of Attorney Act; liability of agent, penalty.
  • 2012 - HB 134 Court distributions; dollar limits.
  • 2012 - HB 677 Power of attorney; termination.
  • 2012 - HB 713 Power of attorney; embezzlement by agent, penalty.
  • 2012 - HB 1168 Trust institutions; entities authorized to engage in trust business in State includes out-of-state.
  • 2012 - SB 11 Self-settled spendthrift trusts; created.
  • 2012 - SB 108 Power of attorney; embezzlement by agent, penalty.
  • 2012 - SB 115 Wills, trusts, and fiduciaries; revising and recodifying laws.
  • 2012 - SB 422 Commissioners of accounts; certified public accountants may serve thereas.
  • 2012 - SB 432 Grantor trusts; settlor's creditors; payment of taxes.
  • 2012 - SB 638 Cemeteries; allocation of perpetual care trust fund.
  • 2013 - HB 1584 Digital accounts and assets; enables a fiduciary to gain access.
  • 2013 - SB 108 Power of attorney; embezzlement by agent, penalty.
  • 2013 - SB 761 Fiduciary attorney-client privilege; common law privilege to be extended to seeking advice.
  • 2013 - SB 914 Digital accounts and assets; enables a fiduciary to gain access.
  • 2013 - SB 973 Medical assistance services; provider information database.
  • 2013 - SB 1052 Wills, trusts, and fiduciaries; revises and recodifies laws. Emergency.
  • 2014 - HB 413 Incapacitated persons; filing of evaluation reports, requirement for filing under seal.
  • 2014 - HB 487 Fiduciaries; letters of administration, bond without surety.
  • 2014 - HB 551 Wills of living persons; safekeeping with certain clerks of circuit courts.
  • 2014 - HB 569 Estate tax; reinstates tax for persons dying on or after July 1,2014.
  • 2014 - HB 743 Mental health; prohibition of firearms.
  • 2014 - HB 1196 Clerks offices; recordation, possession of child pornography, wills, etc.
  • 2014 - HB 1266 Machine guns; owned by a trust.
  • 2014 - SB 245 Fiduciary; qualification of administrator in action for wrongful death.
  • 2014 - SB 345 Trust directors; defenses to liability.
  • 2014 - SB 346 Wills, trusts, and fiduciaries; increasing various allowances and other threshold amounts.
  • 2014 - SB 576 Mental health; prohibition of firearms.
  • 2014 - SB 634 Decanting statute; conditions for second trust.
  • 2015 - HB 1350 Personal injury or wrongful death; appointment of an administrator for prosecution of action.
  • 2015 - HB 1447 Foreclosure procedures; assignment of deed of trust, penalty.
  • 2015 - HB 1477 Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act; created, codifies Act.
  • 2015 - HB 2016 Personal injury or wrongful death action; qualification of fiduciary.
  • 2015 - HB 2229 Small estates; checks or negotiable instruments.
  • 2015 - SB 762 Tenancy by the entireties; property held in trust.
  • 2015 - SB 865 Intestate estate; administration by person convicted of fraud, misrepresentation, robbery, etc.
  • 2015 - SB 963 Action for personal injury or wrongful death; appointment of administrator.
  • 2015 - SB 1450 Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act; created, undue burden restriction, etc.
  • 2016 - HB 230 Trusts; a circuit court may create and establish upon petition of an interested party.
  • 2016 - HB 231 Augmented estate; elective share of surviving spouse.
  • 2016 - HB 342 Guardianship; communication between incapacitated person and others.
  • 2016 - HB 595 Married women; property rights.
  • 2016 - HB 1266 Guardianship appointments, modifications, and terminations; notice sent to DMAS.
  • 2016 - HB 1267 Guardianship or conservatorship; orders prior to the respondent's 18th birthday.
  • 2016 - SB 2 Incapacitated person; public guardian or conservator acting as trustee for trust.
  • 2016 - SB 127 Uniform Powers of Appointment Act; codification of Act.
  • 2016 - SB 507 Judicial creation of trusts.
  • 2016 - SB 632 Guardianship; communication between incapacitated person and members of his family.
  • 2017 - HB 1448 Self-settled spendthrift trusts; certain legal entities to act as qualified trustee.
  • 2017 - HB 1507 Powers & duties of conservator appointed for an absentee; support of an absentee's spouse.
  • 2017 - HB 1515 Circuit court clerks; electronic transfer of certain documents.
  • 2017 - HB 1516 Surviving spouse's elective share; homestead allowance benefit.