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| Bill | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement, etc. | Provides that a tenant is entitled to reasonable attorney fees when a tenant successfully raises as a defense the landlord's noncompliance with the rental agreement and the court enters judgment in favor of the tenant. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2019 | HB 1923 | Virginia HB 1923 (2019) |
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5 | 19 | 7 | 2019-01-04 | 2019-03-08 | openstates | ocd-bill/11bbfd6b-ffd3-4ad5-8829-d21c4e52e1c6 | http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1923 | 6083a71f5b49463d52bbb108cb7c4fe1f31d41ce89186e821d161bf163973649 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 1923 (2019) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement, etc.
Provides that a tenant is entitled to reasonable attorney fees when a tenant successfully raises as a defense the landlord's noncompliance with the rental agreement and the court enters judgment in favor of the tenant.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324) (committee substitute) — source
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1923ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 19105504D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101389D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101389D
introduction - 2019-01-04 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2019-01-14 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2019-01-28 Read first time
reading-1 - 2019-01-29 Read second time
reading-2 - 2019-01-29 Committee substitute agreed to 19105504D-H1
- 2019-01-29 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1923H1
- 2019-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2019-01-30 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 2019-01-30 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2019-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2019-01-31 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2019-02-14 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-19 Enrolled
- 2019-02-19 Signed by Speaker
- 2019-02-20 Signed by President
- 2019-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- 2019-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 2019-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 324 (effective 7/1/19)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11bbfd6b-ffd3-4ad5-8829-d21c4e52e1c6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).