Bill Text: VA HB836 | 2022 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Virginia Small Estate Act; funeral expenses of decedent.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-10 - Stricken from docket by General Laws (22-Y 0-N) [HB836 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2022-HB836-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §64.2-604 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§64.2-604. Payment or delivery of small asset; funeral expenses.
Thirty days after the death of a decedent upon whose estate
there shall have been no application for the appointment of a personal
representative pending or granted in any jurisdiction, any person holding a
small asset belonging to the decedent may shall, at the request of a
successor, pay or deliver so much of the small asset as does not exceed the
amount given priority by §64.2-528 to the
undertaker or mortuary
funeral director or funeral service establishment
as defined in §54.1-2800 handling the funeral of the
decedent, and a receipt of the payee shall be a full and final release of the
payor as to such sum.
