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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I

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Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology

Chair: George L. Barker

Staff: Brooks Braun
Date of Meeting: August 19, 2020
Time and Place: Upon Adjourn Rules/Public register speak 9AM to 12 at GA website:
https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3

S.B. 5051

Patron: Hashmi

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; temporary prohibition against landlord termination of rental agreements or actions to obtain possession of a dwelling unit under certain circumstances. Prohibits the termination of rental agreements and the issuance of orders of possession and writs of eviction for any reason, except in response to a criminal or willful act that is not remediable and that poses a threat to health or safety, until after April 30, 2021.

A BILL to temporarily prohibit termination of rental agreements and issuance of orders of possession and writs of eviction under certain circumstances.

20200703D

S.B. 5086

Patron: Bell

Property and conveyances; state of emergency; Emergency Housing Stability Protection Act; emergency. Creates provisions that can be activated by the Governor by executive order pursuant to a declared state of emergency that would give certain tenants who are behind on rent payments the ability to put those payments on a payment plan. The bill also protects such tenants from having possession of their dwellings taken from them. The bill contains an emergency clause.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 55.1 a chapter numbered 31, consisting of sections numbered 55.1-3100 and 55.1-3101, relating to property and conveyances; state of emergency; Emergency Housing Stability Protection Act; emergency.

20200592D

EMERGENCY

S.B. 5088

Patron: Ebbin

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units, or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units, before terminating a rental agreement due to nonpayment of rent, to serve upon such tenant a written notice informing the tenant of the total amount due and owed and offer the tenant a payment plan under which the tenant must pay the total amount due and owed in equal monthly installments over a period of the lesser of six months or the time remaining under the rental agreement. The bill also outlines the remedies a landlord has if a tenant fails to pay the total amount due and owed or enter into a payment arrangement within five days of receiving notice or if the tenant enters into a payment arrangement but fails to pay within five days of the due date any rent that becomes due under the payment plan or arrangement after such plan or arrangement becomes effective. The bill clarifies that a tenant is not precluded from participating in any other rent relief programs available to the tenant through a nonprofit organization or under the provisions of a federal, state, or local law, regulation, or action.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 55.1-1245 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan.

20200827D

S.B. 5089

Patron: Locke

Guests of transient lodging facilities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; application of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; emergency. Suspends provisions of the Code of Virginia that allow an innkeeper or property owner of a hotel, motel, extended stay facility, vacation residential facility, boardinghouse, or similar transient lodging to evict a guest using self-help methods during the declared public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic and applies the provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to (i) a guest who uses such lodging as his primary residence for any length of time as tenant and (ii) the innkeeper or property owner of such lodging, or his agent, as landlord. The bill contains an emergency clause.

A BILL to assist guests of certain transient lodging impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; application of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; emergency.

20200724D

EMERGENCY