HB817
VA Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct.
Status:
Vetoed
Latest Action:
April 17, 2024
House: House sustained Governor's veto
Chief Patron:
Adele McClure (D)
Session:
2024 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct prohibited.
Adds numerous actions to the list of prohibited retaliatory actions by a landlord against a tenant under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act and specifies actions by a tenant for which a landlord may not retaliate. The bill modifies and expands the list ... (More) of actions a landlord may take without violating the prohibition on retaliation. The bill allows a tenant, when the landlord has unlawfully retaliated, to recover actual damages and to assert retaliation as a defense in any action brought against him for possession. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/09/2024 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104625D
- 01/09/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/18/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB817)
- 01/26/2024 - House: Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
- 02/01/2024 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 02/01/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2024 - House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (16-Y 4-N)
- 02/06/2024 - House: Committee substitute printed 24106862D-H1
- 02/08/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB817H1)
- 02/08/2024 - House: Read first time
- 02/09/2024 - House: Read second time
- 02/09/2024 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 24106862D-H1
- 02/09/2024 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB817H1
- 02/12/2024 - House: Read third time and passed House (67-Y 30-N)
- 02/12/2024 - House: VOTE: Passage (67-Y 30-N)
- 02/13/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/13/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/21/2024 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/23/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/2024 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/26/2024 - Senate: Passed Senate (23-Y 17-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/29/2024 - House: Enrolled
- 02/29/2024 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB817ER)
- 02/29/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB817ER)
- 02/29/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/2024 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2024 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/2024 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/05/2024 - Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/2024 - House: House sustained Governor's veto
