---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; routine maintenance, notice to tenant."
description: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;routine maintenance; notice to tenant. Requires landlords, unlessimpractical to do so, to provide a tenant with 72 hours' notice within14 days of routine maintenance. Current law requires a landlord togive at least 72 hours' notice for such maintenance but does notprovide a maximum window of time for such notice."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 701"
citation: "Virginia HB 701 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael B. Feggans"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fed9677-edb8-4039-a2d0-869a3863260d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB701"
source_hash: "086ea2e83b398dda7f38a23406b56eea6c772bc0e31ad1037a3717ec0ffec612"
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 701 (2024) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; routine maintenance, notice to tenant.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;routine maintenance; notice to tenant. Requires landlords, unlessimpractical to do so, to provide a tenant with 72 hours' notice within14 days of routine maintenance. Current law requires a landlord togive at least 72 hours' notice for such maintenance but does notprovide a maximum window of time for such notice.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0046** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0046)
2. **HB701ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB701ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103625D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB701)
4. **Printed as engrossed 24103625D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB701E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael B. Feggans — primary (person)
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103625D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB701)
- **2024-01-23** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-30** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-02** Engrossed by House as amended HB701E
- **2024-02-02** Printed as engrossed 24103625D-E
- **2024-02-05** Impact statement from DPB (HB701E)
- **2024-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-22** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB701ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB701ER)
- **2024-02-22** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 46 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fed9677-edb8-4039-a2d0-869a3863260d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).