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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 1889 Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies, noncompliance with rental agreement.
Introduced by: Marcia S. "Cia" Price | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan; extend sunset. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, of certain provisions enacted during the 2020 Special Session related to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Such provisions (i) changed from five to 14 days the amount of time that a landlord who owns four or fewer rental dwelling units must wait after serving written notice on a tenant notifying the tenant of his nonpayment of rent and of the landlord's intention to terminate the rental agreement if rent is not paid before the landlord may pursue remedies for termination of the rental agreement; (ii) required 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; (iii) outlined the remedies a landlord has if a tenant fails to pay the total amount due and owed or enter into a payment arrangement within 14 days of receiving notice or if the tenant enters into a payment arrangement but fails to pay within 14 days of the due date any rent that becomes due under the payment plan or arrangement after such plan or arrangement becomes effective; and (iv) clarified 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.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101527D pdf | impact statement
- 02/17/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200362D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/25/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1889ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/31/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/08/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101527D
- 01/08/21 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/12/21 House: Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
- 01/21/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- 01/26/21 House: Reported from General Laws (13-Y 9-N)
- 01/27/21 House: Read first time
- 01/28/21 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/29/21 House: Read third time and passed House (54-Y 45-N)
- 01/29/21 House: VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N)
- 02/01/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/01/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/21 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (9-Y 3-N 2-A)
- 02/17/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200362D-S1
- 02/19/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/22/21 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21200362D-S1
- 02/22/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1889S1
- 02/22/21 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/23/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/21 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200362D-S1 (52-Y 43-N)
- 02/23/21 House: VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 43-N)
- 02/25/21 House: Enrolled
- 02/25/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1889ER)
- 02/25/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/26/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/01/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- 03/01/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/31/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 492 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/31/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)