---
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).