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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Landlord; managing agent."
+description: "Clarifies that for the purposes of signing pleadings and other papers and obtaining a judgment for possession or for rent or damages in general district court, the managing agent of a landlord may act on behalf of the business, provided that he is acting pursuant to the written property management agreement."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2262"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2262 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Remedies and Procedure", "Courts Not of Record", "Property and Conveyances"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey L. Campbell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b815763-5af8-4d74-b9fc-cd7114277925"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2262"
+source_hash: "88b772131e48afdbe2318f343dc04f733c2f0c8c4c310ed9c7eb445d1b883870"
+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 2262 (2019) — Landlord; managing agent.
+
+Clarifies that for the purposes of signing pleadings and other papers and obtaining a judgment for possession or for rent or damages in general district court, the managing agent of a landlord may act on behalf of the business, provided that he is acting pursuant to the written property management agreement.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0477)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2262ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2262ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103600D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2262)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeffrey L. Campbell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103600D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
+- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (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/6b815763-5af8-4d74-b9fc-cd7114277925`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+