State Government / Virginia / Legislation / HB 448
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Land records; certain financing statements; recording and indexing fees. Sets forth the fees that a clerk of the circuit court shall charge for recording and indexing a multipurpose deed of trust or mortgage, described in the bill as a deed of trust or mortgage, whether or not commercial, that serves multiple purposes and contains two or more components that may serve as independent legal instruments for independent legal purposes. The bill provides that no clerk of a circuit court shall assess separate recording and indexing fees for such multipurpose deed of trust or mortgage 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 or deed to correct a fraudulently recorded deed, including a deed of trust, between a grantor and grantee when no consideration has passed between the parties.
Latest development · Jul 21, 2026
Continued from last session
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Continued from last session
Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Reported from Courts of Justice and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 1-A)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)
Read second time and engrossed
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB448)
Read first time
Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
Assigned HCJ sub: Civil
Referred from General Laws and referred to Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
Referred to Committee on General Laws
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103483D
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