Virginia Senate Bill 1545 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-22 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Civil relief; citizens of the Commonwealth furloughed or otherwise not receiving wages or payments due to partial closure of the federal government; emergency. Provides a 30-day stay of eviction and foreclosure proceedings for tenants, homeowners, and owners who rent to a tenant a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit who request a stay and provide written proof, defined in the bill, that such tenant or homeowner is (i) an employee of the United States government, (ii) an independent contractor for the United States government, or (iii) an employee of a company under contract with the United States government who was furloughed or otherwise has not received or is not currently receiving wages or payments due to a closure of the United States government. Civil relief; citizens of the Commonwealth furloughed or otherwise not receiving wages or payments due to partial closure of the federal government; emergency. Provides a 30-day stay of eviction and foreclosure proceedings for tenants, homeowners, and owners who rent to a tenant a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit who request a stay and provide written proof, defined in the bill, that such tenant or homeowner is (i) an employee of the United States government, (ii) an independent contractor for the United States government, or (iii) an employee of a company under contract with the United States government who was furloughed or otherwise has not received or is not currently receiving wages or payments due to a closure of the United States government.

Furloughed federal employees & contractors; civil relief.

Sen. Aaron Rouse [D]

2023-02-14 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-22	House	Left in General Laws
2023-02-14	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N)
2023-02-13	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3
2023-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2023-02-13	House	Read first time
2023-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-06	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Emergency clause deleted
2023-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1545S1
2023-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 23106157D-S1
2023-02-06	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2023-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2023-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-01	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23106157D-S1
2023-02-01	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2023-01-30	Senate	Rereferred to General Laws and Technology
2023-01-30	Senate	Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N)
2023-01-23	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2023-01-23	Senate	Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause
2023-01-23	Senate	Unanimous consent to introduce

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1545
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1545+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1545S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23106157D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1545F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1545FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S02V0066+SB1545
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S12V0103+SB1545
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0241SB1545+SB1545
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0276SB1545+SB1545
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0277SB1545+SB1545
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H1103V0022+SB1545