Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel, stop certain order.
Summary
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 local, national, or global emergency that is effective for either an indefinite period or for a period of not less than 30 days and that prevents the service member from occupying the leased dwelling unit for a residential purpose. The bill also allows such military personnel to terminate a rental agreement after receiving any permanent change of station order or temporary duty order in excess of three months' duration. Current law allows such termination only for orders requiring a departure of 35 miles or more from the dwelling unit. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 213.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2024
Senate Passage
Feb 2024
Signed into Law
Mar 2024
Introduced Jan 5, 2024
Signed Mar 8, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Feb 19, 2024 · House of Delegates Feb 6, 2024
How they voted
39–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Feb 19, 2024
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
32
Key actions
13
Committee
7
Amendments
2
Mar 8, 2024
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 28 (effective 3/8/24)
executive
Feb 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 21, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 21, 2024
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB352ER)
lower
Feb 19, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 7, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
upper
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2024
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB352E
lower
Feb 5, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
lower
Feb 2, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed by for the day
lower
Jan 30, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 25, 2024
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 25, 2024
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 15, 2024
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
lower
Jan 5, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jackie Glass
DDemocratic
Co
Jason Ballard
RRepublican
Co
Kelly Fowler
DDemocratic
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