SB815
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; adverse action by landlord, tenant remedies.
Status:
Vetoed
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
Chief Patron:
Aaron Rouse (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; adverse action by landlord; tenant remedies.
Prohibits a residential landlord from taking adverse action, as defined in the bill, against a prospective tenant due to the prospective tenant's history of a dismissed, nonsuited, or expunged unlawful detainer case or an unlawful detainer case that is eligible for expungement. The bill allows a prospective tenant to recover, ... (More) as a result of any such adverse action, (i) actual damages, (ii) statutory damages of $1,000, and (iii) reasonable attorney fees. (Less)-
Bill History
- 12/30/2024 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101815D
- 12/30/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/13/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB815)
- 01/15/2025 - Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/15/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Judiciary
- 01/15/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N)
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/27/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/27/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 16-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/03/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/03/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (12-Y 9-N)
- 02/06/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/07/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/07/2025 - House: General Laws Amendment agreed to
- 02/07/2025 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/07/2025 - House: Passed House with amendment (49-Y 45-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: House Amendment agreed to by Senate (28-Y 11-N 1-A)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB815ER)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB815)
- 02/13/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/16/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025
- 02/20/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/25/2025 - Senate: Governor's Veto Received by Senate
- 03/25/2025 - Vetoed by Governor
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
