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Bill	Restrictive covenants; deeds of reformation.	Restrictive covenants; certificate of release of certain prohibited covenants. Prohibits a deed containing a restrictive covenant from being recorded on or after July 1, 2020, and provides the form for a Certificate of Release of Certain Prohibited Covenants to be recorded to remove any such restrictive covenant.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 788	Virginia HB 788 (2020)	bill		enacted	Lamont Bagby	4	28	7	2020-01-07	2020-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/6f5efb64-64e5-479f-91f3-c13f5e9b949a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB788	f708ada341ab0b7708829dd532f3bf681995163b136befba5c14b592b0acd093	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 788 (2020) — Restrictive covenants; deeds of reformation.

Restrictive covenants; certificate of release of certain prohibited covenants. Prohibits a deed containing a restrictive covenant from being recorded on or after July 1, 2020, and provides the form for a Certificate of Release of Certain Prohibited Covenants to be recorded to remove any such restrictive covenant.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0748) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB788ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB788H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB788H1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104616D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-30 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-30 Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Committee substitute printed 20107122D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Committee substitute agreed to 20107122D-H1
• 2020-02-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB788H1
• 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-05 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (96-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-05 VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-28 Enrolled
• 2020-02-28 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-02 Signed by President
• 2020-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 748 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f5efb64-64e5-479f-91f3-c13f5e9b949a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).