Virginia House Bill 1593 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-05 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Landlord and tenant laws; Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of methamphetamine laboratory; remedy for nondisclosure. Requires a landlord of a residential dwelling unit who has actual knowledge that the dwelling unit was previously used as a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory and has not been cleaned up in accordance with the guidelines established by the Department of Health to provide to a prospective tenant a written disclosure that so states. The bill provides when the disclosure shall be made by the landlord and the remedy for the tenant for nondisclosure. The bill also requires an owner of residential property when selling the property to make the same disclosure. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2014.

Residential Property Disclosure Act; required disclosures of property used as methamphetamine lab.

Del. David Bulova [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-05	House	Left in General Laws
2013-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2013-01-11	House	Assigned GL sub: #1 Housing
2013-01-05	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2013-01-05	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13103405D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1593
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1593+hil