republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-99.md

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Bill	Va. Fair Housing Law; status as a victim of family abuse, etc.	Landlord and tenant; victims of family abuse; evidence to mitigate low credit score; damages. Allows an applicant for a lease to recover actual damages, including all amounts paid to the landlord as an application fee, application deposit, or reimbursement for any of the landlord's out-of-pocket expenses that were charged to the applicant, along with attorney fees, if the landlord does not consider evidence of the applicant's status as a victim of family abuse to mitigate any adverse effect of the otherwise qualified applicant's low credit score.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 99	Virginia HB 99 (2020)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	5	33	6	2019-12-12	2020-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/b1ff0b76-ce35-4fea-9d5e-6cf6f5b1b5e4	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB99	d7390215219371cd03e925e7cfc63ac1f7c4cb1479a6feddf6d567c8e0c718b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 99 (2020) — Va. Fair Housing Law; status as a victim of family abuse, etc.

Landlord and tenant; victims of family abuse; evidence to mitigate low credit score; damages. Allows an applicant for a lease to recover actual damages, including all amounts paid to the landlord as an application fee, application deposit, or reimbursement for any of the landlord's out-of-pocket expenses that were charged to the applicant, along with attorney fees, if the landlord does not consider evidence of the applicant's status as a victim of family abuse to mitigate any adverse effect of the otherwise qualified applicant's low credit score.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB99ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB99H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB99H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (HB99) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (80-Y 20-N) — 79–20 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — cosponsor (person)
• John S. Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
• Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100448D introduction
• 2019-12-12 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2020-01-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB99)
• 2020-01-30 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-04 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-04 Committee substitute printed 20107595D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-04 Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-06 Passed by for the day
• 2020-02-07 Passed by for the day
• 2020-02-10 Floor substitute printed 20108069D-H2 (Simon)
• 2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-10 Committee on General Laws substitute rejected 20107595D-H1
• 2020-02-10 Substitute by Delegate Simon agreed to 20108069D-H2
• 2020-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB99H2
• 2020-02-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB99H2)
• 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House (80-Y 20-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-11 VOTE: Passage (80-Y 20-N)
• 2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-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
• 2020-02-27 Enrolled
• 2020-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB99ER)
• 2020-02-27 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-27 Signed by President
• 2020-03-06 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 6, 2020
• 2020-03-06 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 388 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1ff0b76-ce35-4fea-9d5e-6cf6f5b1b5e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).