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2019 SESSION
HB 2287 Lease agreements; requirements, emergency.
Introduced by: James A. "Jay" Leftwich | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Lease agreements; requirements; emergency. Specifies that a lease agreement or other written document conveying a non-freehold estate in land is not invalid, unenforceable, or subject to repudiation by the parties to such agreement on account of, or otherwise affected by, the fact that the conveyance of the estate was not in the form of a deed. Current law requires a lease for a term of more than five years to be in the form of a deed. The bill further replaces all references throughout the Code to "deed of lease" with the term "lease." This bill is in response to The Game Place, L.L.C., et al. v. Fredericksburg 35, LLC, 295 Va. 396, 813 S.E.2d 312 (Va. 2018). The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 1422.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101226D pdf
- 02/07/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2287ER) pdf
- 02/13/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/08/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101226D
- 01/08/19 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/14/19 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/15/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/19 House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/19 House: Read first time
- 01/22/19 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/23/19 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (96-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/24/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/04/19 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/19 Senate: Read third time
- 02/06/19 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/19 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/19 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/19 House: Enrolled
- 02/07/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2287ER)
- 02/07/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/07/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/08/19 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 8, 2019
- 02/08/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 15, 2019
- 02/13/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 11 (effective 2/13/19)
- 02/13/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011)