---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; home-based businesses."
description: "Provides that if a development is located in a locality classifying home-based child care services as an accessory or ancillary residential use under the locality's zoning ordinance, the provision of home-based child care services in a personal residence shall be deemed a residential use unless (i) expressly prohibited or restricted by the declaration or (ii) restricted by the association's bylaws or rules. The bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1853"
citation: "Virginia HB 1853 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property and Conveyances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-02"
last_action: "2019-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b59bf121-600e-4976-89ba-dea64aa8a113"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1853"
source_hash: "98a27b2b1378bc9d4dcba9face6de4771e6b88333a1a75413be11a5abe9eec0c"
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 1853 (2019) — Virginia Property Owners' Association Act; home-based businesses.

Provides that if a development is located in a locality classifying home-based child care services as an accessory or ancillary residential use under the locality's zoning ordinance, the provision of home-based child care services in a personal residence shall be deemed a residential use unless (i) expressly prohibited or restricted by the declaration or (ii) restricted by the association's bylaws or rules. The bill is a recommendation of the Virginia Housing Commission. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0002)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0002)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1853ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1853ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101162D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1853)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101162D `introduction`
- **2019-01-02** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-07** Enrolled
- **2019-02-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-07** Signed by President
- **2019-02-08** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 8, 2019
- **2019-02-08** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 15, 2019
- **2019-02-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 2 (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/b59bf121-600e-4976-89ba-dea64aa8a113`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).