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Bill Lease agreements; requirements, emergency. Specifies that a lease agreement or other written document conveying a non-freehold estate in land is not invalid, unenforceable, or subject to repudiation by the parties to such agreement on account of, or otherwise affected by, the fact that the conveyance of the estate was not in the form of a deed. Current law requires a lease for a term of more than five years to be in the form of a deed. The bill further replaces all references throughout the Code to "deed of lease" with the term "lease." This bill is in response to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 HB 2287 Virginia HB 2287 (2019)
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Emergency Legislation
Property and Conveyances
enacted
James A. "Jay" Leftwich
3 15 8 2019-01-08 2019-02-13 openstates ocd-bill/3f50ec59-fc4f-48af-a6b5-2dd661cf1b0a http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2287 3dbcc5ab6bbdcb66ec15fb696fd427faaa3780fdcafaaf5d8f4d845f7b6382a7 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Virginia HB 2287 (2019) — Lease agreements; requirements, emergency.

Specifies that a lease agreement or other written document conveying a non-freehold estate in land is not invalid, unenforceable, or subject to repudiation by the parties to such agreement on account of, or otherwise affected by, the fact that the conveyance of the estate was not in the form of a deed. Current law requires a lease for a term of more than five years to be in the form of a deed. The bill further replaces all references throughout the Code to "deed of lease" with the term "lease." This bill is in response to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2287ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101226D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from General Laws — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 960 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology — 130 (pass) · upper
  • Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 390 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)
  • Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
  • T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101226D introduction
  • 2019-01-08 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 11 (effective 2/13/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f50ec59-fc4f-48af-a6b5-2dd661cf1b0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).