republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-1031.md

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Bill	Common interest communities; disclosure packets.	Requires that as a prerequisite to charging any fees for the preparation of disclosure packets, both professionally managed property owners' associations and property owners' associations that are not professionally managed must register with the Common Interest Community Board, file annual reports, and make annual assessment payments. Additionally, a professionally managed property owners' association must provide the disclosure packet electronically if so requested by the requester in order to charge fees. The bill allows a property owners' association that is not professionally managed to charge fees at the option of the seller or the seller's agent for (i) expediting the inspection, preparation, and delivery of the disclosure packet; (ii) providing an additional hard copy of the disclosure packet; and (iii) providing third-party commercial delivery service. A property owners' association that is not professionally managed may also charge and collect fees for inspection of the property, the preparation and issuance of an association disclosure packet, and such other services as provided by professionally managed property owners' associations as long as the association provides the disclosure packet electronically if so requested by the requester and complies with the other requirements of collecting fees for disclosure packets by professionally managed property owners' associations.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 1031	Virginia HB 1031 (2018)	bill	Property and Conveyances	enacted	Vivian E. Watts	3	17	6	2018-01-09	2018-03-09	openstates	ocd-bill/5b4835e3-8141-4c89-af10-aa053f8206fb	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1031	03c98aefa01bbe283507571a690b7fb23ef30330048b5f6fa6e86f09494b568f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1031 (2018) — Common interest communities; disclosure packets.

Requires that as a prerequisite to charging any fees for the preparation of disclosure packets, both professionally managed property owners' associations and property owners' associations that are not professionally managed must register with the Common Interest Community Board, file annual reports, and make annual assessment payments. Additionally, a professionally managed property owners' association must provide the disclosure packet electronically if so requested by the requester in order to charge fees. The bill allows a property owners' association that is not professionally managed to charge fees at the option of the seller or the seller's agent for (i) expediting the inspection, preparation, and delivery of the disclosure packet; (ii) providing an additional hard copy of the disclosure packet; and (iii) providing third-party commercial delivery service. A property owners' association that is not professionally managed may also charge and collect fees for inspection of the property, the preparation and issuance of an association disclosure packet, and such other services as provided by professionally managed property owners' associations as long as the association provides the disclosure packet electronically if so requested by the requester and complies with the other requirements of collecting fees for disclosure packets by professionally managed property owners' associations.

Version chain

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

1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1031ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 18106881D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104551D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Vivian E. Watts — primary (person)
• Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104551D introduction
• 2018-01-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2018-01-26 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2018-02-10 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-02-12 Committee substitute agreed to 18106881D-H1
• 2018-02-12 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1031H1
• 2018-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-14 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2018-02-22 Read third time reading-3
• 2018-02-26 Enrolled
• 2018-02-26 Signed by Speaker
• 2018-02-28 Signed by President
• 2018-03-02 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
• 2018-03-02 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
• 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 226 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b4835e3-8141-4c89-af10-aa053f8206fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).