---
type: "Bill"
title: "Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel, stop certain order."
description: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a local, national, or global emergency that is effective for either an indefinite period or for a period of not less than 30 days and that prevents the service member from occupying the leased dwelling unit for a residential purpose. The bill also allows such military personnel to terminate a rental agreement after receiving any permanent change of station order or temporary duty order in excess of three months' duration. Current law allows such termination only for orders requiring a departure of 35 miles or more from the dwelling unit. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to HB 352."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 213"
citation: "Virginia SB 213 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Russet Perry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47b72d77-506e-475e-90f1-b2b08cf6be20"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB213"
source_hash: "44b8cb87a670cb4950557c79b203e92d6f3960f2c604fdd063be351c49e2b121"
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 SB 213 (2024) — Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel, stop certain order.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a local, national, or global emergency that is effective for either an indefinite period or for a period of not less than 30 days and that prevents the service member from occupying the leased dwelling unit for a residential purpose. The bill also allows such military personnel to terminate a rental agreement after receiving any permanent change of station order or temporary duty order in excess of three months' duration. Current law allows such termination only for orders requiring a departure of 35 miles or more from the dwelling unit. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to HB 352.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0154** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0154)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101371D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB213)
3. **Printed as engrossed 24101371D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB213E)
4. **SB213ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB213ER)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Russet Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101371D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB213)
- **2024-01-31** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-31** Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** Reading of amendment waived
- **2024-02-05** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-05** Emergency clause added
- **2024-02-05** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB213E
- **2024-02-05** Printed as engrossed 24101371D-E
- **2024-02-06** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB213E)
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-20** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-26** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB213ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB213ER)
- **2024-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 154 (effective 3/26/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47b72d77-506e-475e-90f1-b2b08cf6be20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).