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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; revises definition of community land trust."
+description: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; definitions; community land trust. Revises the definition of a community land trust to remove the requirement that a community housing development organization under such definition must have a corporate membership open to any adult resident or organization of a particular geographic area specified in the bylaws of the organization and that the organization's board of directors must include a majority of members who are elected by the corporate membership."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2151"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2151 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-07"
+last_action: "2025-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdebf810-41f6-4a39-a4f1-a6304c483869"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2151"
+source_hash: "fa4cd904ac2fac0d0ac3f657f38136f77992f6b99e676e196e99ec0e651208c9"
+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 2151 (2025) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; revises definition of community land trust.
+
+Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; definitions; community land trust. Revises the definition of a community land trust to remove the requirement that a community housing development organization under such definition must have a corporate membership open to any adult resident or organization of a particular geographic area specified in the bylaws of the organization and that the organization's board of directors must include a majority of members who are elected by the corporate membership.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015308.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1070910.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057291.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) — **98–1** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101609D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-17** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2151)
+- **2025-01-20** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
+- **2025-01-28** Reported from General Laws (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-17** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2151ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2151)
+- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 28 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdebf810-41f6-4a39-a4f1-a6304c483869`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+