---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; employees of the landlord, rental dwelling unit keys."
description: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; employees of the landlord, rental dwelling unit keys."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2082"
citation: "Virginia HB 2082 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mundon King"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e212092-b3d6-4da3-8551-e051cee13878"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2082"
source_hash: "303a99bf62b02f4e6815b6bb0d77940b50ab09a5d87584aca0400695736bdf99"
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 2082 (2023) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; employees of the landlord, rental dwelling unit keys.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0432** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0432)
2. **HB2082ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2082ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100646D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2082)
4. **Printed as engrossed 23100646D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2082E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (34-Y 5-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 5-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mundon King — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100646D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB2082)
- **2023-01-26** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
- **2023-02-02** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-02** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2082E
- **2023-02-06** Printed as engrossed 23100646D-E
- **2023-02-07** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 5-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** VOTE: Passage (93-Y 5-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB2082E)
- **2023-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** Passed Senate (34-Y 5-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-20** Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2082ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB2082ER)
- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 432 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0432)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e212092-b3d6-4da3-8551-e051cee13878`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).