HB 6 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices, sources of funds.

Summary
Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; source of funds. Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of funds to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill creates an exemption for an owner or owner's managing agent, provided that such owner does not own more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units in the Commonwealth at the time of the alleged discriminatory housing practice. The bill allows an owner or owner's managing agent to deny or limit a person's rental or occupancy of a rental dwelling unit based on the person's source of funds for that unit if such source is not approved within 15 days of the person's submission of the request for tenancy approval. The bill defines "source of funds" as any source that lawfully provides funds to or on behalf of a renter or buyer of housing, including any assistance, benefit, or subsidy program, whether such program is administered by a governmental or nongovernmental entity. This bill incorporates HB 357.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Nov 18, 2019 Signed Mar 27, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Mar 3, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 7, 2020

How they voted

25–15
Passed
Total votes 40
Mar 3, 2020
D Democratic21
21 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican19
4 Yea 15 Nay
78% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
41
Key actions
3
Committee
10
Amendments
4
Mar 27, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (effective 7/1/20)
Mar 4, 2020
House of Delegates · Amendment offered
Senate amendments agreed to by House (57-Y 38-N)
Mar 3, 2020
Senate · Passed
Passed Senate with amendments (25-Y 15-N)
Mar 3, 2020
Senate · Amendment offered
Engrossed by Senate as amended
Mar 2, 2020
Senate · Amendment adopted
Amendment by Senator McCLellan agreed to
Mar 2, 2020
Senate · Amendment offered
Reading of amendment waived
Feb 26, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 2-A)
Feb 19, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
Feb 19, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (8-Y 6-N)
Feb 10, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
Feb 7, 2020
House of Delegates · Passed
Read third time and passed House (61-Y 37-N)
Feb 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB6H1
Feb 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Committee substitute agreed to 20107395D-H1
Feb 4, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Reported from General Laws with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
Jan 30, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
Jan 15, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
Nov 18, 2019
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
Nov 18, 2019
House of Delegates · Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100177D
1 primary · 24 co-sponsors

Sponsors