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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; adds two new disclosures."
description: "Adds two new disclosures required to be made by a seller of residential real property to a purchaser, one for whether the property is subject to one or more conservation or other easements and a second for whether the property is subject to a community development authority approved by a local governing body. The bill also (i) adds a definitions section for the Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act, (ii) provides for electronic delivery of required disclosures, and (iii) provides that the required disclosures provided by the Real Estate Board appear on its website. The bill has numerous technical amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2034"
citation: "Virginia HB 2034 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property and Conveyances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson H. Miller"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bfa0ebc-41bd-45ce-a882-7f73916a0a94"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2034"
source_hash: "31e35446748eeea72e030788064ab1ca7ccce28c65508f8b1c29992fbe1b175e"
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 2034 (2017) — Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act; adds two new disclosures.
Adds two new disclosures required to be made by a seller of residential real property to a purchaser, one for whether the property is subject to one or more conservation or other easements and a second for whether the property is subject to a community development authority approved by a local governing body. The bill also (i) adds a definitions section for the Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act, (ii) provides for electronic delivery of required disclosures, and (iii) provides that the required disclosures provided by the Real Estate Board appear on its website. The bill has numerous technical amendments.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0386)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0386)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2034ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2034ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103790D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2034)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendments — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **140** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **960** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendments — **390** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Jackson H. Miller — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103790D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-26** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Reading of amendments waived
- **2017-02-16** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-16** Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- **2017-02-16** Rereferred to Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 386 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bfa0ebc-41bd-45ce-a882-7f73916a0a94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).