Virginia Residential Landlord And Tenant Act
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with rental agreement. [HB-803]
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 nonpayment of rent and of the landlord's intention to terminate the rental agreement if rent is not paid before the landlord may pursue remedies for termination of the rental agreement.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In General Laws on 02/15/2022
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. [HB-802]
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 that, if not promptly corrected, constitutes a fire hazard or serious threat to the life, health, or safety of tenants or occupants of the premises, a locality may bring an action to enforce the landlord's duty to maintain the rental dwelling in a fit and habitable condition, provided that (i) the property
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Vote: (48-y 52-n) on 04/28/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord's noncompliance as defense to action. [SB-284]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession for nonpayment of rent. Removes the requirement that a tenant, if in possession of a dwelling unit, must pay for the court to hold the amount of rent found to be due and unpaid pending the issuance of an order pursuant to an action by the landlord for possession based upon nonpayment of rent where the tenant has asserted a defense that there exists upon the leased premises a condition that constitutes, or will constitute, a fire hazard or a
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Continued To 2023 In General Laws And Technology (12-y 2-n) on 02/09/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord obligations, tenant safety. [HB-160]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord obligations; tenant safety. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units, or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units, to require all employees and applicants for employment to submit to fingerprinting and provide personal descriptive information to be forwarded along with the employee's or applicant's fingerprints through the Central Criminal Records Exchange and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining criminal history
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Tabled In Appropriations (10-y 8-n) on 02/11/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental agreements, child care. [SB-69]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; child care services provisions in rental agreements. Allows a rental agreement to contain provisions allowing for the tenant's operation of properly licensed and authorized child care services. Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; child care services provisions in rental agreements. Allows a rental agreement to contain provisions allowing for the tenant's operation of properly licensed and authorized child care services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0267) on 04/08/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; county and city enforcement. [SB-43]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; county and city enforcement. Provides that any county or city may bring an action to enforce the provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act related to health and safety, provided that (i) the property where the violations occurred is within the jurisdictional boundaries of the county or city; (ii) the county or city has notified the landlord who owns the property directly or through the managing agent of the nature of the violations and the landlord has not remedied the violations
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Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Stricken At Request Of Patron In General Laws And Technology (15-y 0-n) on 02/02/2022
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement, etc. [HB-1908]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; prohibition on using negative credit information that arose during a closure of the United States Government against certain applicants for tenancy; penalty. Prohibits a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units in the Commonwealth from taking any adverse action against an applicant for tenancy based solely on payment history or an eviction for nonpayment of rent that occurred
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Defeated By Senate (19-y 20-n) on 02/23/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; responsibilities of real estate brokers, etc. [HB-2229]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; responsibilities of real estate brokers; foreclosure of single-family residential dwelling units. Provides that if a dwelling unit used as a single-family residence is foreclosed upon and there is a tenant in such dwelling unit on the date of the foreclosure sale, if the successor in interest acquires the dwelling unit for the purpose of occupying such unit as his primary residence, the rental agreement terminates and the tenant is required to vacate the dwelling unit on a date not less than 90 days
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcus Simon
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0426) on 03/30/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord's acceptance of rent with reservation. [HB-2014]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; landlord's acceptance of rent with reservation; tenant's right of redemption. Prohibits a landlord from accepting full payment of rent, as well as any damages, money judgment, award of attorney fees, and court costs, from a tenant and receiving an order of possession pursuant to an unlawful detainer action and proceeding with eviction, unless there are bases for the entry of an order of possession other than nonpayment of rent stated in the unlawful detainer action filed by the landlord.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0410) on 03/30/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord charges for security deposits. [HB-2249]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord charges for security deposits, insurance premiums for damage insurance, and insurance premiums for renter's insurance; filing of information regarding resident agent appointed by nonresident property owner. Prohibits a landlord from requiring a tenant to pay a security deposit, insurance premiums for damage insurance, and insurance premiums for renter's insurance prior to the commencement of the tenancy that exceed the amount of two months' periodic rent. The bill permits a landlord, however,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0427) on 03/30/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit. [SB-1215]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit, interruption of services, or actions taken to make premises unsafe. Provides that a general district court shall enter an order upon petition by a tenant that his landlord has (i) removed or excluded the tenant from the dwelling unit unlawfully, (ii) interrupted or caused the interruption of an essential service to the tenant, or (iii) taken action to make the premises unsafe for habitation. The bill allows entry of a preliminary order ex parte to require
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0404) on 03/30/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit. [HB-1900]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant remedies for exclusion from dwelling unit, interruption of services, or actions taken to make premises unsafe. Provides that a general district court shall enter an order upon petition by a tenant that his landlord has (i) removed or excluded the tenant from the dwelling unit unlawfully, (ii) interrupted or caused the interruption of an essential service to the tenant, or (iii) taken action to make the premises unsafe for habitation. The bill allows entry of a preliminary order ex parte to require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0403) on 03/30/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with rental agreement. [HB-1889]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan; extend sunset. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, of certain provisions enacted during the 2020 Special Session related to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Such provisions (i) changed from five to 14 days the amount of time that a landlord who owns four or fewer rental dwelling units must wait after serving written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonpayment of rent and of the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lamont Bagby
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0492) on 03/31/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; access to dwelling unit during certain emergencies. [HB-1981]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; access to dwelling unit during certain declared states of emergency. Provides that a tenant shall be deemed to have reasonable justification for declining to permit a landlord or managing agent to exhibit the tenant's dwelling unit for sale or lease if the tenant has reasonable concern for his own health, or the health of any authorized occupant, during a state of emergency declared by the Governor in response to a communicable disease of public health threat and the tenant has provided written notice
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0409) on 03/30/2021
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord to inspect vacated dwelling unit. [HB-2382]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord to inspect vacated dwelling unit for abandoned animals; penalty. Requires a landlord who knows or should have known that a dwelling unit has been vacated to inspect such dwelling unit within two days of its being vacated for the presence of any abandoned animals. If an abandoned animal is discovered, the landlord is required to notify an animal control officer or law enforcement of the presence and condition of the animal but shall not be considered the owner or custodian of the animal. The
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joesph Lindsey
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017