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2024 SESSION

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HB 817 VA Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct.

Introduced by: Adele Y. McClure | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

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 retaliated, to recover actual damages and to assert retaliation as a defense in any action brought against him for possession.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104625D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/06/24  House: Committee substitute printed 24106862D-H1  pdf | impact statement
• 02/29/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB817ER)  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
• Governor's veto explanation

HISTORY

• 01/09/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104625D
• 01/09/24  House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
• 01/26/24  House: Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
• 02/01/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 02/06/24  House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (16-Y 4-N)
• 02/06/24  House: Committee substitute printed 24106862D-H1
• 02/08/24  House: Read first time
• 02/09/24  House: Read second time
• 02/09/24  House: Committee substitute agreed to 24106862D-H1
• 02/09/24  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB817H1
• 02/12/24  House: Read third time and passed House (67-Y 30-N)
• 02/12/24  House: VOTE: Passage (67-Y 30-N)
• 02/13/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/13/24  Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
• 02/21/24  Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N)
• 02/23/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/26/24  Senate: Read third time
• 02/26/24  Senate: Passed Senate (23-Y 17-N)
• 02/29/24  House: Enrolled
• 02/29/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB817ER)
• 02/29/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/03/24  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/11/24  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
• 03/11/24  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
• 04/05/24  Governor: Vetoed by Governor
• 04/17/24  House: House sustained Governor's veto