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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Va. Fair Housing Law; status as a victim of family abuse, etc."
+description: "Landlord and tenant; victims of family abuse; evidence to mitigate low credit score; damages. Allows an applicant for a lease to recover actual damages, including all amounts paid to the landlord as an application fee, application deposit, or reimbursement for any of the landlord's out-of-pocket expenses that were charged to the applicant, along with attorney fees, if the landlord does not consider evidence of the applicant's status as a victim of family abuse to mitigate any adverse effect of the otherwise qualified applicant's low credit score."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 99"
+citation: "Virginia HB 99 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-12-12"
+last_action: "2020-03-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1ff0b76-ce35-4fea-9d5e-6cf6f5b1b5e4"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB99"
+source_hash: "d7390215219371cd03e925e7cfc63ac1f7c4cb1479a6feddf6d567c8e0c718b4"
+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 99 (2020) — Va. Fair Housing Law; status as a victim of family abuse, etc.
+
+Landlord and tenant; victims of family abuse; evidence to mitigate low credit score; damages. Allows an applicant for a lease to recover actual damages, including all amounts paid to the landlord as an application fee, application deposit, or reimbursement for any of the landlord's out-of-pocket expenses that were charged to the applicant, along with attorney fees, if the landlord does not consider evidence of the applicant's status as a victim of family abuse to mitigate any adverse effect of the otherwise qualified applicant's low credit score.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0388)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB99ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB99ER)
+3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB99H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB99H2)
+4. **HB99H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB99H1)
+5. **Impact statement from DPB (HB99)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB99)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (80-Y 20-N) — **79–20** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
+- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
+- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- John S. Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
+- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
+- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
+- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-12-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100448D `introduction`
+- **2019-12-12** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-15** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB99)
+- **2020-01-30** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2020-01-30** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-04** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2020-02-04** Committee substitute printed 20107595D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2020-02-04** Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-06** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-02-07** Passed by for the day
+- **2020-02-10** Floor substitute printed 20108069D-H2 (Simon)
+- **2020-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-10** Committee on General Laws substitute rejected 20107595D-H1
+- **2020-02-10** Substitute by Delegate Simon agreed to 20108069D-H2
+- **2020-02-10** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB99H2
+- **2020-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB99H2)
+- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed House (80-Y 20-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-11** VOTE: Passage (80-Y 20-N)
+- **2020-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-02-12** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-19** Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
+- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB99ER)
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-06** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2020
+- **2020-03-06** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 388 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1ff0b76-ce35-4fea-9d5e-6cf6f5b1b5e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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