Virginia Residential Landlord And Tenant Act
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance by certain landlords, tenant remedies. [HB-247]
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 housing authority with the rental agreement or a noncompliance with any provision of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act that materially affects the health and safety of the tenant.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jackie Glass
Left In Courts Of Justice on 11/18/2024
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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement. [SB-596]
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 to certain illegal activities by the tenant, within which the initial hearing on the landlord's action for immediate possession of the premises shall be held. The bill also reorganizes certain provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to consolidate language and organize the structure
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Left In General Laws And Technology on 11/19/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Unlawful detainer actions; no rental agreement between owner and occupant. [HB-1482]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; unlawful detainer action; emergency hearings. Provides for an emergency hearing to occur on a summons for unlawful detainer filed by an owner of a residential single family dwelling unit if the court finds based upon the evidence that (i) no rental agreement exists or has ever existed between the owner and the occupant; (ii) the occupant occupies such dwelling unit without permission of such owner; and (iii) the owner has given such occupant a written notice to vacate such dwelling unit at least 72 hours
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Leftwich
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0331) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
DHCD; translation of certain forms and documents into five non-English languages on website, etc. [HB-1487]
Department of Housing and Community Development; forms and documents for landlords and tenants; translation into non-English languages. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to translate all forms and documents that the Department is mandated by law to create and that are posted on its website for use by residential landlords and tenants into the five non-English languages most commonly spoken in Virginia. The bill allows the Department to accept materials translated by volunteers but requires the Department to verify the accuracy
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0332) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; prohibited provisions, fees for maintenance. [SB-422]
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 agreement unless necessitated by the tenant's violation of a requirement of the Act or (ii) pay any fee to submit periodic rent payments or other amounts due, unless the landlord offers an alternative method of payment that does not include additional fees.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; enforcement by localities. [SB-479]
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 institute an action for injunction and damages to enforce the landlord's duty to maintain the rental dwelling unit in a fit and habitable condition,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lashrecse Aird
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; affordable housing, criminal record screening policy. [SB-588]
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) to develop a criminal record screening model policy for admitting or denying an applicant for affordable housing covered under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in accordance with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's guidance on the application of the Fair Housing Act
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Sponsored by: Sen. Louise Lucas
Passed By For The Day on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement. [SB-596]
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 to certain illegal activities by the tenant, within which the initial hearing on the landlord's action for immediate possession of the premises shall be held. The bill also reorganizes certain provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to consolidate language and organize the structure
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Continued To 2025 In General Laws And Technology (15-y 0-n) on 02/07/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. [SB-405]
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, a description of any rent and fees to be charged to the tenant. The bill requires that such rental agreement also contain: No fee shall be collected unless it is listed below or incorporated into this agreement by way of a separate addendum after execution of this rental agreement.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0788) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; affordable housing, criminal record screening policy. [HB-1207]
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) to develop a criminal record screening model policy for admitting or denying an applicant for affordable housing covered under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in accordance with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's guidance on the application of the Fair Housing Act
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Sponsored by: Rep. C.E. Hayes
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; copy of rental agreement for tenant. [HB-1272]
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 provide additional hard copies of the rental agreement upon request or to maintain such rental agreement in an electronic format that can be easily accessed by or shared with the tenant upon request. The bill also prohibits a landlord from charging a tenant for any such additional copies of his rental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Nadarius Clark
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0831) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, etc.; notice of tenant screening criteria. [HB-1271]
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 Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act to provide applicants for tenancy with (i) the amount and purpose of fees to be charged to such applicant, (ii) information that will be used to assess such applicant's eligibility for tenancy, and (iii) any criteria that may result in automatic denial of an application.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Bonita Anthony
Incorporated By General Laws on 02/06/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
VA Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; material noncompliance by landlord, court escrow account. [HB-1251]
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 agreement. The bill requires the tenant, during the pendency of the action, to pay into escrow the amount of rent that becomes due subsequent to the initial court date called for under the rental agreement within five days of the date due under such rental agreement, unless or until such amount is modified
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; summary of rental agreement provisions. [HB-955]
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 prospective tenant that includes the duration of the lease, the amount of rent and the date upon which such rent shall be due, an explanation of any deposits and late fees that may be charged, and any termination provisions. The bill also directs the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; units occupied by elderly tenants. [HB-733]
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 unit in which an elderly tenant, defined in the bill, resides by an amount that exceeds such locality's rent stabilization allowance. The bill defines "rent stabilization allowance" as the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index, for the region in which the locality sits, from March in the preceding
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Sponsored by: Rep. Briana Sewell
Stricken From Docket By General Laws (20-y 0-n) on 02/06/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant's remedies, condemnation of dwelling unit. [HB-957]
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 if the tenant gave notice to the landlord during the tenancy that his dwelling unit was in violation of an applicable building code, such violation posed a substantial risk to the health, safety, and welfare of a tenant, and such violation resulted in the tenant being excluded from his dwelling unit due to such unit being condemned. The bill includes exceptions
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0825) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
VA Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct. [HB-817]
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 and Tenant Act and Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act and specifies actions by a tenant for which a landlord may not retaliate. The bill modifies and expands the list of actions a landlord may take without violating the prohibition on retaliation. The bill allows a tenant, when the landlord has unlawfully
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination of rental agreement. [HB-764]
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 terminate such tenant's obligations under a rental agreement if the tenant has obtained a permanent protective order and has given proper written notice of termination. Under current law, there must be a family abuse protective order or a conviction before the tenant may terminate such obligations under a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Karrie Delaney
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0302) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. [HB-967]
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, a description of any rent and fees to be charged to the tenant. The bill requires that such rental agreement also contain: No fee shall be collected unless it is listed below or incorporated into this agreement by way of a separate addendum after execution of this rental agreement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0826) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
VA Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, etc.; definitions, notice of tenant screening criteria. [HB-996]
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 Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act to provide applicants for tenancy with (i) the amount and purpose of fees to be charged to such applicant, (ii) information that will be used to assess such applicant's eligibility for tenancy, and (iii) any criteria that may result in automatic denial of an application.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Vetoed By Governor on 05/17/2024