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type: "Bill"
title: "Landlord and tenant law; transient lodging as primary residence."
description: "Clarifies that the availability of the use of self-help eviction in certain circumstances to the owner of transient lodging shall not preclude such owner from pursuing any civil or criminal remedies under the laws of the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 286"
citation: "Virginia SB 286 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hotels", "Restaurants", "Summer Camps", "and Campgrounds", "Property and Conveyances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lionell Spruill, Sr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad8f668d-c366-4def-a29a-667c539c9ad3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB286"
source_hash: "221a559ba8786e5726dbb89b34c1e3e2629873f48fd86bdaaf0a3ad72ce95fff"
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 286 (2018) — Landlord and tenant law; transient lodging as primary residence.
Clarifies that the availability of the use of self-help eviction in certain circumstances to the owner of transient lodging shall not preclude such owner from pursuing any civil or criminal remedies under the laws of the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB286ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB286ER)
2. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 18105619D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB286S1)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103920D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB286)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103920D `introduction`
- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Reading of substitute waived
- **2018-01-25** Committee substitute agreed to 18105619D-S1
- **2018-01-25** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB286S1
- **2018-01-31** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-31** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 78 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad8f668d-c366-4def-a29a-667c539c9ad3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).