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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
SB 5089 Transient lodg. facility impacted by COVID-19; application of Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act.
Introduced by: Mamie E. Locke | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
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.
FULL TEXT
- 08/17/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200724D pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 08/17/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 08/18/20 20200724D
- 08/17/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 08/27/20 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)