Virginia House Bill 5111 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)
Status: Introduced on August 21 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-11-09 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; temporary prohibition against landlord termination of rental agreements or actions to obtain possession of a dwelling unit under certain circumstances. Prohibits the termination of rental agreements and the issuance of orders of possession and writs of eviction for any reason, except in response to a criminal or willful act that is not remediable and that poses a threat to health or safety, from the effective date of the act until 60 days after the expiration or revocation of all states of emergency declared by the Governor related to the COVID-19 pandemic, unless the landlord has taken certain steps, outlined in the bill, to provide certain information to the tenant and apply for, or assist the tenant with applying for, any available rental programs and the tenant has willfully refused to attempt to (i) apply for any available rental assistance or (ii) if the landlord is eligible to apply for a rental assistance program on behalf of the tenant, provide any information or documentation that is necessary for the landlord to complete an application for such program.

Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; temporary prohibition against termination of rent. agreement.

Del. Joshua Cole [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy [D]
Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]	Del. C.E. Hayes [D]	Del. Dan Helmer [D]	Del. Chris Hurst [D]
Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Delores McQuinn [D]
Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]
Del. Rodney Willett [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-11-09	House	Left in Appropriations
2020-08-24	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2020-08-24	House	Referred from General Laws by voice vote
2020-08-21	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2020-08-21	House	Presented and ordered printed 20200932D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5111
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+ful+HB5111+hil