Virginia House Bill 6 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)
Status: Passed on March 27 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-27 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; source of funds. Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of funds to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill creates an exemption for an owner or owner's managing agent, provided that such owner does not own more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units in the Commonwealth at the time of the alleged discriminatory housing practice. The bill allows an owner or owner's managing agent to deny or limit a person's rental or occupancy of a rental dwelling unit based on the person's source of funds for that unit if such source is not approved within 15 days of the person's submission of the request for tenancy approval. The bill defines "source of funds" as any source that lawfully provides funds to or on behalf of a renter or buyer of housing, including any assistance, benefit, or subsidy program, whether such program is administered by a governmental or nongovernmental entity.

Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices, sources of funds.

Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]
Del. Alex Askew [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]	Del. Betsy Carr [D]	Del. Lee Carter [D]
Del. Joshua Cole [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Dan Helmer [D]	Del. Charniele Herring [D]
Del. Clinton Jenkins [D]	Del. Jerrauld Jones [D]	Del. Mark Keam [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]
Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Del. Michael Mullin [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]
Sen. Danica Roem [D]	Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]	Del. Jeion Ward [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2020-03-04 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 38-N) (Y: 57 N: 38 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (25-Y 15-N) (Y: 25 N: 15 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 2-A) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (8-Y 6-N) (Y: 8 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (61-Y 37-N) (Y: 61 N: 37 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-04 - House - House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (14-Y 8-N) (Y: 14 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N) (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N) (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-27		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477)
2020-03-27		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-07	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-07	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB6ER)
2020-03-07	House	Enrolled
2020-03-04	House	VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 38-N)
2020-03-04	House	Senate amendments agreed to by House (57-Y 38-N)
2020-03-04	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-03-03	Senate	Passed Senate with amendments (25-Y 15-N)
2020-03-03	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended
2020-03-03	Senate	Read third time
2020-03-02	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-03-02	Senate	Amendment by Senator McCLellan agreed to
2020-03-02	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2020-03-02	Senate	Committee amendment rejected
2020-03-02	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-28	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-27	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-26	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 2-A)
2020-02-19	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-02-19	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (8-Y 6-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2020-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-07	House	VOTE: Passage (61-Y 37-N)
2020-02-07	House	Read third time and passed House (61-Y 37-N)
2020-02-07	House	Pending question ordered
2020-02-06	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB6H1
2020-02-06	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20107395D-H1
2020-02-06	House	Read second time
2020-02-05	House	Read first time
2020-02-04	House	Incorporates HB357 (Lopez)
2020-02-04	House	Reported from General Laws with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
2020-02-04	House	Committee substitute printed 20107395D-H1
2020-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
2020-01-15	House	Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
2019-11-18	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2019-11-18	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100177D

HB357 (Similar To) 2020-02-04 - Incorporated by General Laws

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB6
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB6+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB6H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB6ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0477+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1102V0052+HB0006
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1102V0079+HB0006
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H11V0245+HB0006
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0584+HB0006
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S12V0185+HB0006
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0479+HB0006
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1203HB0006+HB0006
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1442HB0006+HB0006
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1819+HB0006