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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement, etc."
+description: "Provides that a tenant is entitled to reasonable attorney fees when a tenant successfully raises as a defense the landlord's noncompliance with the rental agreement and the court enters judgment in favor of the tenant."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1923"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1923 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Property and Conveyances"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey M. Bourne"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2019-01-04"
+last_action: "2019-03-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11bbfd6b-ffd3-4ad5-8829-d21c4e52e1c6"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1923"
+source_hash: "6083a71f5b49463d52bbb108cb7c4fe1f31d41ce89186e821d161bf163973649"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1923 (2019) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement, etc.
+
+Provides that a tenant is entitled to reasonable attorney fees when a tenant successfully raises as a defense the landlord's noncompliance with the rental agreement and the court enters judgment in favor of the tenant.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0324)
+2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1923)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1923ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1923ER)
+4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105504D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1923H1)
+5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101389D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1923)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeffrey M. Bourne — primary (person)
+- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
+- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
+- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
+- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101389D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-29** Committee substitute agreed to 19105504D-H1
+- **2019-01-29** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1923H1
+- **2019-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-30** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2019-01-30** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2019-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-31** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
+- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 324 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11bbfd6b-ffd3-4ad5-8829-d21c4e52e1c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+