HB 1719 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement.

Summary

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. This bill is identical to SB 812.

Issues: ✓ Housing

Bill status vetoed 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House of Delegates Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

Vetoed

Mar 2025

Introduced Jan 4, 2025 Vetoed Mar 24, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced → Enrolled · 1 edit · Mar 10, 2025

MINOR

This bill converts a draft House Bill into an Enrolled Act, making it official law. The substantive content of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act amendments remains identical between the two versions, with no policy changes to tenant or landlord rights.

TECHNICAL

Formatting and layout changes from draft bill format to official enrolled act format, including page headers, line numbers, and approval stamps.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 14, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 3, 2025

How they voted

36–0

Passed · 4 other

Total votes 40

Feb 14, 2025

D Democratic21

21 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican19

15 Yea 4

78% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Apr 2, 2025

Vetoed

House sustained Governor's veto

lower

Mar 24, 2025

Vetoed

Vetoed by Governor

executive

Mar 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Signed by President

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Signed by Speaker

lower

Mar 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1719ER)

lower

Feb 18, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)

upper

Feb 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 14, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from General Laws and Technology (8-Y 5-N)

upper

Feb 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology

upper

Feb 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (50-Y 48-N)

lower

Jan 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from General Laws (12-Y 10-N)

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)

lower

Jan 14, 2025

Committee

Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection

lower

Jan 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on General Laws

lower

1 primary · 10 co-sponsors