Virginia House Bill 1516 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-04 - Continued to 2021 in General Laws by voice vote
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Landlord and tenant; certain owners of residential rental property; agent and registration requirements; civil penalty. Creates the Virginia Residential Rental Property Registry, to be developed and maintained by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Every owner of residential property on which three or more dwelling units are offered for rent is required to submit certain information to be placed on the Registry. Failure to properly register or maintain updated registry information is subject to a civil penalty of $50 per unit for the first day and $50 for each additional day of noncompliance, to be levied by the Department. The bill also requires such property owners to appoint and continuously maintain an agent who (i) is available to be contacted 24 hours a day and (ii) works or resides not more than 25 miles from any such property. The contact phone number of such agent is required to be posted in any residential building on any such property in a conspicuous manner for use by the tenants.

Landlord and tenant; certain owners of residential rental property.

Del. Delores McQuinn [D]

2020-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-04	House	Continued to 2021 in General Laws by voice vote
2020-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
2020-01-15	House	Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
2020-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2020-01-08	House	Presented and ordered printed 20102145D

HB1516 (Carry Over) 2020-02-04 - Continued to 2021 in General Laws by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
55	1	1211.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1516
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1516+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1102V0064+HB1516
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1102V0091+HB1516