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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5115 Emergency laws; civil relief, citizens furloughed or otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments.
Introduced by: Marcia S. "Cia" Price | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Emergency laws; civil relief; citizens furloughed or otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments due to state of emergency; COVID-19 pandemic. Provides a 60-day stay of an unlawful detainer for nonpayment of rent for tenants and a 30-day stay of foreclosure proceedings for owners of any residential dwelling unit and for homeowners of a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit who request a stay and provide written proof, defined in the bill, that they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic during the period for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency (the Emergency). The bill requires owners of residential dwelling units and homeowners who rent to a tenant a one-family to four-family residential dwelling unit to request such stay of foreclosure proceedings within 90 days of the initial declaration of the Emergency or 90 days following the end of the Emergency, whichever is later. The bill provides for an expiration of the provisions 90 days following the end of the Emergency.
FULL TEXT
- 08/23/20 House: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20200946D pdf
- 08/27/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20200946D-E pdf | impact statement
- 10/07/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5115ER) pdf | impact statement
- 11/09/20 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB5115ER2) pdf
- 11/09/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Governor's recommendation
HISTORY
- 08/23/20 House: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20200946D
- 08/23/20 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 08/24/20 House: Reported from General Laws (12-Y 8-N)
- 08/26/20 House: Read first time
- 08/27/20 House: Read second time
- 08/27/20 House: Amendment by Delegate Simon agreed to
- 08/27/20 House: Emergency clause deleted
- 08/27/20 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB5115E
- 08/27/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20200946D-E
- 08/28/20 House: Read third time and passed House (55-Y 40-N)
- 08/28/20 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 40-N)
- 09/02/20 Senate: Read first time
- 09/02/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 09/16/20 Senate: Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 09/16/20 Senate: Rereferred to General Laws and Technology
- 09/18/20 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
- 09/24/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Read third time
- 09/25/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 09/25/20 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 09/25/20 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (35-Y 0-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 10/01/20 Senate: Read third time
- 10/01/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (34-Y 5-N)
- 10/02/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 10/02/20 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (53-Y 41-N)
- 10/02/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 41-N)
- 10/07/20 House: Enrolled
- 10/07/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5115ER)
- 10/07/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 10/07/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 10/14/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 14, 2020
- 10/14/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020
- 10/21/20 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 11/09/20 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (57-Y 40-N)
- 11/09/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 40-N)
- 11/09/20 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (37-Y 1-N)
- 11/09/20 Governor: Emergency clause added by Governor's recommendation
- 11/09/20 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 11/09/20 House: Reenrolled
- 11/09/20 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB5115ER2)
- 11/09/20 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 11/09/20 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 11/09/20 House: Enacted, Chapter 49 (effective 11/9/20)
- 11/09/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049)