SB1128
Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing, criminal record screening model policy.
Status:
Vetoed
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
Chief Patron:
Louise Lucas (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy.
Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department), with input from a stakeholder group convened by the Department, to develop a criminal record screening model policy for admitting or denying an applicant for affordable housing covered under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in ... (More) accordance with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's guidance on the application of the federal Fair Housing Act to the use of criminal records and maintain such model policy on its website. The bill prohibits a landlord of an affordable housing unit from basing an adverse action, in whole or in part, on an applicant's criminal or arrest record unless the landlord does so in accordance with the criminal record screening model policy developed by the Department and posted on its website and provides the applicant with a written copy of such policy. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department to convene a work group have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104557D
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1128)
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25105270D-S1
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1128)
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/05/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/05/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 02/06/2025 - House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (13-Y 8-N)
- 02/06/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106860D-H1
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1128)
- 02/10/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/11/2025 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/12/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/12/2025 - House: General Laws Substitute agreed to
- 02/12/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/12/2025 - House: Passed House with substitute (50-Y 47-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (22-Y 14-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1128ER)
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1128)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/03/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
- 03/03/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Senate: Governor's Veto Received by Senate
- 03/24/2025 - Vetoed by Governor
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
