Virginia House Bill 2054 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Passed on February 13 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-02-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental agreement; provisions made applicable by operation of law. Requires a landlord to offer the tenant a written rental agreement containing the terms governing the rental of the dwelling unit and setting forth the terms and conditions of the landlord tenant relationship. The bill provides that in the event a written rental agreement is not offered by the landlord, a rental tenancy shall be deemed to exist by operation of law and establishes the terms and conditions of that tenancy. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission. This bill is identical to SB 1676.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental agreement, provisions made applicable by law.

Del. Betsy Carr [D]	Del. Dawn Adams [D]	Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]
Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]	Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]

2019-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-23 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (96-Y 0-N) (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-17 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-15 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-13		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005)
2019-02-13		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 5 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-02-08		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 15, 2019
2019-02-08	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 8, 2019
2019-02-07	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-07	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2054ER)
2019-02-07	House	Enrolled
2019-02-06	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	Senate	Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	Senate	Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	Senate	Read third time
2019-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-04	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N)
2019-01-24	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2019-01-24	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2019-01-23	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (96-Y 0-N)
2019-01-23	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
2019-01-22	House	Read second time and engrossed
2019-01-21	House	Read first time
2019-01-17	House	Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
2019-01-15	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2019-01-14	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
2019-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2019-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101166D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2054
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2054+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2054ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0005+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1102V0002+HB2054
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H11V0038+HB2054
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV1793+HB2054
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S12V0099+HB2054
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0414HB2054+HB2054
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0458HB2054+HB2054
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0461HB2054+HB2054
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0462HB2054+HB2054