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SENATE BILL NO. 598 Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 10, 2024 A BILL to amend and reenact § 55.1-601 of the Code of Virginia, relating to property and conveyances; recordation of documents; name changes. ---------- Patron-- Ebbin ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 55.1-601 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 55.1-601. Recording and indexing of certain documents showing changes of names.

A duly authenticated copy of a marriage license with the certificate of the person celebrating the marriage or a duly authenticated copy of a final order of divorce showing a change of name of a woman any person shall be entitled to be recorded in the clerk's office in which deeds are recorded of the county or city in which any land, or an interest in any land, that is owned by such woman person lies and shall be indexed by such clerk in the grantor and grantee indices in his office.