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1999 SESSION
HB 2276 Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rent escrow required.
Introduced by: L. Preston Bryant, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rent escrow required in certain cases. Provides that where a landlord has filed an unlawful detainer action seeking possession of the premises and the tenant seeks to obtain a continuance of the action or to set it for a contested trial, the court shall, upon request of the landlord and as a condition of granting the continuance or contested trial date, order the tenant to pay an amount equal to the rent that would be due as of the continuance or contested trial date into the court escrow account Upon payment of the required amount by the tenant, the action shall be continued in the court’s discretion or set for a contested trial, with the provision that should the tenant fail to pay future rent due under the rental agreement, the court shall enter judgment against the tenant upon request of the landlord. The court shall not require the rent to be escrowed where it finds the tenant has asserted a good faith defense or if the landlord has requested the continuance or the contested trial. The bill also contains a provision allowing the court, to meet the ends of justice, to grant a tenant an additional week to pay the rent due into the court escrow account.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 991551140 pdf
- 02/06/99 House: Committee substitute printed 991599112-H1 pdf
- 03/03/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2276ER) pdf
- 03/31/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/21/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 991551140
- 01/21/99 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/25/99 House: Assigned to General Laws sub-committee: 1
- 02/06/99 House: Committee substitute printed 991599112-H1
- 02/06/99 House: Reported from General Laws with sub. (16-Y 5-N)
- 02/06/99 House: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/99 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/08/99 House: Read second time
- 02/08/99 House: Committee substitute agreed to 991599112-H1
- 02/08/99 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 991599112-H1 (49-Y 38-N)
- 02/08/99 House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT (49-Y 38-N)
- 02/09/99 House: Read third time and passed House (77-Y 23-N)
- 02/09/99 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (77-Y 23-N)
- 02/09/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/10/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/17/99 Senate: Reported from General Laws with amds. (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/18/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/99 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/19/99 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/19/99 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/19/99 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (37-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 02/19/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (37-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 02/19/99 Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (36-Y 2-N 2-A)
- 02/19/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (36-Y 2-N 2-A)
- 02/22/99 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/99 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (80-Y 10-N)
- 02/23/99 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (80-Y 10-N)
- 03/03/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2276ER)
- 03/08/99 House: Enrolled
- 03/08/99 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/99 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/24/99 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 382 (effective 7/1/99)
- 03/31/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382)