Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.
Summary
Creates the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. The bill allows fiduciaries to manage digital property such as computer files, web domains, and virtual currency, and restricts a fiduciary's access to electronic communications such as email, text messages, and social media accounts unless the original user consented to such access in a will, trust, power of attorney, or other record. The bill repeals the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act, which was enacted in 2015. This bill is identical to
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2017
Committee Review
Jan 2017
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2017
Senate Passage
Jan 2017
Signed into Law
Feb 2017
Introduced Jan 3, 2017
Signed Feb 17, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
15
Key actions
2
Committee
3
Feb 17, 2017
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 33 (effective 7/1/17)
executive
Jan 27, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
legislature
Jan 26, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 1-A)
legislature
Jan 13, 2017
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
legislature
Jan 3, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
legislature
Jan 3, 2017
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101621D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jay Leftwich
RRepublican
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