| VA | HB184 | Enroll
75% | Foreclosure procedures; subordinate mortgage; affidavit required. Provides that, when a foreclosure sale is initiated due to a default in payment of a subordinate security instrument, such subordinate mortgage lienholder shall submit to the trustee a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB993 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB442 | Veto | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB598 | Veto | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB967 | Enroll
75% | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB597 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB588 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB817 | Veto | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB957 | Enroll
75% | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB955 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB996 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Communicated to Governor |
| VA | HB1207 | Veto | Department 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1272 | Enroll
75% | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB1251 | Veto | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1397 | Enroll
75% | Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; manufactured home park; notice of sale and relocation expenses. Requires a manufactured home park owner to provide notice to the Department of Housing and Community Development and each manufactured home park tenant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB1519 | Enroll
75% | Fees for electronic fund transfers; prohibited. Provides that charging any transaction or processing fee or similar surcharge for the purchase of a good or service through the use of an electronic fund transfer is a prohibited practice under the Virg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted |
| VA | HB572 | Pass | Manufactured home parks; resident rights. Provides that a rental agreement with a term of one year or more will not be automatically renewed if the tenant notifies the landlord in writing 60 days prior to the expiration date of such tenant's intent t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 726 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1241 | Pass | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; partial termination of certain time-shares. Allows for the partial termination of a time-share project by a developer or an association and provides the procedures for any such partial termination. The bill also s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 546 (effective - see bill) |
| VA | HB778 | Pass | Quitclaim and release property rights. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to quitclaim and release certain real property rights related to a portion of real estate owned by the Department related to an offsite ingress and egress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 453 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB1331 | Pass | Conveyance of easement; Department of State Police and Department of Transportation. Authorizes the conveyance of an easement in Campbell County by the Department of State Police in conjunction with the Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 479 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | HB764 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0302) |
| VA | HB1209 | Pass | Common interest communities; reserve studies; special assessment rescission or reduction. Removes certain provisions of the Property Owners' Association Act and the Virginia Condominium Act that authorize associations governed by such Acts to rescind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) |
| VA | HB1243 | Pass | Consumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328) |
| VA | HB105 | Pass | Resale Disclosure Act; resale certificate; fees. Resale Disclosure Act; resale certificate; fees. Adds condominium associations and real estate cooperative associations to the types of associations under the Resale Disclosure Act that are prohibited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0170) |
| VA | HB879 | Pass | Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Wildlife Resources to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Land's End Wildlife Management Area to Joseph C. Frank III, Betty J. Frank, Jacob C. Ackerman, and Crystal F. Ackerman. The ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0073) |
| VA | HB723 | Pass | Property Owners' Association Act; meetings of the board of directors; inconsistent provisions. Provides that the provisions of the Property Owners' Association Act govern the conduct of meetings of the board of directors without regard to whether the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0082) |
| VA | HB312 | Pass | Rental conveyances; leases; assignments. Relocates certain provisions of Title 55.1 (Property and Conveyances) of the Code of Virginia related to assignments of rent from a chapter related to nonresidential tenancies to a chapter related to leases. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027) |
| VA | HB352 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028) |
| VA | HB880 | Pass | Common interest communities; foreclosure remedy. Prohibits certain bills to enforce a lien from being entertained if the real estate is the judgment debtor's primary residence and the judgment is for assessments levied by certain common interest comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0055) |
| VA | HB701 | Pass | Virginia 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046) |
| VA | HB876 | Pass | Resale Disclosure Act; delivery of resale certificate; remedies. Provides that failure to deliver a resale certificate within 14 days, as required by the Resale Disclosure Act, deems the resale certificate unavailable. The bill grants a purchaser thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0054) |
| VA | HB836 | Pass | Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities; trusts; certain nonvested property interests or powers of appointment over property or property interests. Extends from 90 years to 1,000 years the period for which a nonvested property interest held in tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052) |
| VA | HB1434 | Engross
50% | Land grant; Sandy Point; Mattaponi Indian Tribe. Authorizes the Department of Forestry to grant and convey tracts of land within Sandy Point State Forest in King William County south of and including Brooks Creek to the Mattaponi Indian Tribe. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB192 | Intro
25% | Landlord and Tenant Fairness Act established. Establishes the Landlord and Tenant Fairness Act that requires any landlord who owns more than nine rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than nine rental dwelling units, whethe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB795 | Intro
25% | Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Conservation and Recreation to grant and convey a temporary construction and ingress and egress easement over Neabsco Road at Leesylvania State Park to the Newport Estates Homeowners Association, I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB741 | Intro
25% | Department of Environmental Quality; nuclear energy electric generation facilities; permitting. Redefines "small renewable energy projects" as "small clean energy projects" and adds an electrical generation facility with a rated capacity not exceedin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Labor and Commerce Committee |
| VA | HB196 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by General Laws |
| VA | HB528 | Intro
25% | Property Owners' Association Act; managed conservation landscaping; unreasonable restrictions prohibited. Provides that no association shall prohibit an owner from installing managed conservation landscaping, defined in the bill, upon such owner's pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB918 | Intro
25% | Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act; termination without cause. Provides purchasers of any time-share within the Commonwealth a right to terminate such time-share if, at least 10 years after the initial purchase, the purchaser has paid the entire pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB733 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Stricken from docket by General Laws (20-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB863 | Intro
25% | Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; flood-related disclosures. Requires the Real Estate Board to include on its repetitive risk loss disclosure form for owners of residential real property space for the disclosure of historical flood damage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1271 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by General Laws |
| VA | HB922 | Intro
25% | Common interest communities; pesticides; prohibition on use. Clarifies that common interest community associations may ban the use of pesticides in or upon any common area or common element, as defined in relevant law. The bill also allows such assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB247 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
Committee substitute posted to LIS only 24106092D-H1 |
