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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5120 Guests of trans. lodging facilities impacted by COVID-19 pandemic; suspending self-help evictions.
Introduced by: Clinton L. Jenkins (by request) | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Guests of transient lodging facilities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; suspending self-help evictions; 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 replaces those provisions with a requirement that guests who demonstrate that their stay is a direct or indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic only be evicted according to the provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, including the necessity of the filing of an unlawful detainer action in a court of competent jurisdiction and the execution of a writ of eviction issued pursuant to such action. The bill contains an emergency clause.
FULL TEXT
- 08/24/20 House: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20200603D pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 08/24/20 House: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20200603D
- 08/24/20 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 11/09/20 House: Left in General Laws