HB 2151 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; revises definition of community land trust.

Summary
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; definitions; community land trust. Revises the definition of a community land trust to remove the requirement that a community housing development organization under such definition must have a corporate membership open to any adult resident or organization of a particular geographic area specified in the bylaws of the organization and that the organization's board of directors must include a majority of members who are elected by the corporate membership.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Jan 7, 2025 Signed Mar 18, 2025
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Enrolled Chaptered · 1 edit
MINOR
This bill converts a legislative bill into an official chapter of Virginia law. The substantive content remains the same as the enrolled version, with only formatting changes to align with official publication standards. No policy changes, new requirements, or substantive amendments to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act were made.
TECHNICAL

Formatting and layout changes to convert the bill from enrolled draft format to official chapter format, including adding chapter number, approval date, and adjusting text spacing for publication.

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

How they voted

360
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
26
Key actions
10
Committee
6
Mar 18, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 28 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive
Feb 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Feb 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Feb 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2151ER)
lower
Feb 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 12, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-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 (98-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 28, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from General Laws (21-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 23, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 20, 2025
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
lower
Jan 7, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Betsy Carr
Betsy Carr
DDemocratic
VA
78