---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; security deposits."
description: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; security deposits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1542"
citation: "Virginia HB 1542 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Campbell, J.L."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-05"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d595f75c-e66f-435b-b75e-19ff8afbd408"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1542"
source_hash: "4d2d4a5504018ac05f6234aa50131ed0674d70367055f941c06f7a28e7c74531"
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 1542 (2023) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; security deposits.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0433** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0433)
2. **HB1542ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1542ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101599D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1542)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Campbell, J.L. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101599D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Impact statement from DPB (HB1542)
- **2023-01-12** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-24** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-30** VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-31** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1542ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB1542ER)
- **2023-02-15** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 433 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0433)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d595f75c-e66f-435b-b75e-19ff8afbd408`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).