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VAHB442VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB993Enroll
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited fees. Prohibits landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from requiring a tenant to (i) pay any fee for the maintenance or repair of any unit subject to such rental...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VAHB967PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, in bold, 14-point type, a description o...
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2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 826 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB422Enroll
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited fees. Prohibits landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from requiring a tenant to (i) pay any fee for the maintenance or repair of any unit subject to such rental...
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2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor
VAHB598VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement. Increases from five days to 14 days the mandatory waiting period after a landlord serves written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonp...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB597Enroll
75%
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VASB405PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, in bold, 14-point type, a description o...
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2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 788 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB588Enroll
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fire or casualty damage; termination by landlord. Requires a landlord, prior to giving a tenant 21 days' notice of his intention to terminate the rental agreement for a dwelling unit that has been damaged...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VAHB817VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct prohibited. Adds numerous actions to the list of prohibited retaliatory actions by a landlord against a tenant under the Virginia Residential Landlord...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB957PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant's remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit due to condemnation. Provides that the landlord shall be liable to the tenant for actual damages and reasonable attorney fees if the tenant gave notice t...
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2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 825 (effective 7/1/24)
VASB479Enroll
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. Provides that if a condition exists in a rental dwelling unit that constitutes a material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement or with any provision of law th...
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2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor
VAHB955Enroll
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Department of Housing and Community Development; summary of rental agreement provisions. Requires landlords to include, upon request, a summary page with any written rental agreement offered to a prospect...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VAHB996Enroll
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Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; notice of tenant screening criteria. Requires landlords governed by the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act or M...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024
VAHB1251VetoVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord; rent escrow; relief. Removes the requirement that, prior to the granting of any relief, a tenant shall pay into escrow any amount of rent called for under the rental ag...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1272PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; copy of rental agreement for tenant. Requires a landlord to provide a copy of the signed written rental agreement to the tenant within 10 business days of the effective date of the rental agreement and to...
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2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 831 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB1207VetoDepartment of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) t...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VASB588VetoDepartment of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) t...
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2024-04-17
Passed by for the day
VAHB764PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination of rental agreement; victims of sexual abuse or criminal sexual assault. Provides that a tenant who is a victim of family abuse, sexual abuse, or other criminal sexual assault may termin...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302)
VASB213PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a lo...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154)
VAHB352PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a lo...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028)
VAHB701PassVirginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; routine maintenance; notice to tenant. Requires landlords to include in the tenant's notice of routine maintenance the last date on which such maintenance may possibly be performed. The bill also requires...
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2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046)
VASB596Intro
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; emergency eviction process. Reduces from 15 to seven the number of days, after the date upon which a tenant is served a landlord's intent to terminate the tenancy due ...
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2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee
VAHB196Intro
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; grace period prior to termination. Provides that if a landlord owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dw...
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2024-02-06
Incorporated by General Laws
VAHB733Intro
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; units occupied by elderly tenants; rent stabilization allowance. Allows any locality to adopt rent stabilization provisions to prohibit any landlord, defined in the bill, from increasing the rent on any u...
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2024-02-06
Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N)
VAHB1271Intro
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Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; notice of tenant screening criteria. Requires landlords governed by the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act or M...
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2024-02-06
Incorporated by General Laws
VAHB247Intro
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance by certain landlords; tenant remedies. Allows a tenant to bring a civil cause of action for compensatory damages against a housing authority when there is a material noncompliance by such ho...
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2024-01-26
Committee substitute posted to LIS only 24106092D-H1
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