---
type: "Bill"
title: "Common Interest Community Board; information on covenants, association disclosure packets."
description: "Requires the Common Interest Community Board to include in its current one-page form that accompanies association disclosure packets that are required to be provided to all prospective purchasers of lots located within a development that is subject to the Virginia Property Owners' Association Act that the purchase contract for a lot within an association is a legally binding document once it is signed by the prospective purchaser where the purchaser has not elected to cancel the purchase contract in accordance with law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1475"
citation: "Virginia HB 1475 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert D. Orrock, Sr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-12-13"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23f2eeed-647e-48e0-9318-977dc94b9a08"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1475"
source_hash: "4ac93de535168d3130e33263283e06262caf434a5aa96a5103f9ed70179a8478"
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 1475 (2017) — Common Interest Community Board; information on covenants, association disclosure packets.

Requires the Common Interest Community Board to include in its current one-page form that accompanies association disclosure packets that are required to be provided to all prospective purchasers of lots located within a development that is subject to the Virginia Property Owners' Association Act that the purchase contract for a lot within an association is a legally binding document once it is signed by the prospective purchaser where the purchaser has not elected to cancel the purchase contract in accordance with law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0257)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1475ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1475ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104787D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1475H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101015D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1475)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — primary (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101015D `introduction`
- **2016-12-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** Committee substitute agreed to 17104787D-H1
- **2017-02-01** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1475H1
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 257 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23f2eeed-647e-48e0-9318-977dc94b9a08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).