Bill Text: VA HB1487 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DHCD; translation of certain forms and documents into five non-English languages on website, etc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-04-02 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332) [HB1487 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-HB1487-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1487 Offered January 19, 2024 A BILL to direct the Department of Housing and Community Development, in conjunction with a stakeholder group, to create a model rental agreement that complies with the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. ---------- Patrons-- Tran, Shin, Bennett-Parker, Clark, Glass and Price ---------- Referred to Committee on General Laws ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) shall convene a work group to create a model rental agreement that complies with the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (§ 55.1-1200 et seq. of the Code of Virginia) (the Act). The work group shall include residential tenants and landlords, tenant advocates, and legal aid attorneys that represent tenants.

The Department shall translate this model rental agreement, and all other forms and documents that the Department is mandated by law to create and that are posted on its website for use by residential landlords and tenants, into the five non-English languages most commonly spoken in Virginia according to the most recent American Community Survey data published by the United States Census Bureau. The Department may accept materials translated by volunteers but shall verify the accuracy of such translations prior to making the translated materials available on its website. The Department shall post on its website all English and translated versions of all Department-created documents and model forms for use by any persons governed by the Act.