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Bill	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; certain notices of termination.	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;notice of termination to contain legal services contact information.Provides that no notice of termination of tenancy served upon anyresidential tenant is effective unless it contains on its first page,in type no smaller or less legible than that otherwise used in thebody of the notice, the name, address, and telephone number of thelegal services program, if any, serving the jurisdiction in whichthe premises is located. The same requirement is currently only applicableto a public housing authority organized under the Housing AuthoritiesLaw.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 115	Virginia SB 115 (2020)	bill		enacted	Barbara A. Favola	5	35	8	2019-12-14	2020-03-06	openstates	ocd-bill/168f1ab0-98ca-47d3-ac93-8a4443cb6b63	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB115	88f2dc87dfcd322d41fddcd4d39fa91237579b132ec734e4485daaa16b459283	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 115 (2020) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; certain notices of termination.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;notice of termination to contain legal services contact information.Provides that no notice of termination of tenancy served upon anyresidential tenant is effective unless it contains on its first page,in type no smaller or less legible than that otherwise used in thebody of the notice, the name, address, and telephone number of thelegal services program, if any, serving the jurisdiction in whichthe premises is located. The same requirement is currently only applicableto a public housing authority organized under the Housing AuthoritiesLaw.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0182) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB115ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate as amended SB115E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB115) (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (SB115H1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (29-Y 10-N) — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (64-Y 36-N) — 63–36 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (19-Y 3-N) — 19–3 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101741D introduction
• 2019-12-14 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2020-01-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB115)
• 2020-01-15 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-20 Reading of amendments waived
• 2020-01-20 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-01-20 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB115E
• 2020-01-20 Printed as engrossed 20101741D-E
• 2020-01-21 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Reported from General Laws with substitute (19-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-13 Impact statement from DPB (SB115E)
• 2020-02-13 Committee substitute printed 20108246D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB115H1)
• 2020-02-17 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-18 Committee substitute agreed to 20108246D-H1
• 2020-02-18 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB115H1
• 2020-02-18 Passed House with substitute (64-Y 36-N) passage
• 2020-02-18 VOTE: Passage (64-Y 36-N)
• 2020-02-20 House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
• 2020-02-20 Title replaced 20108246D-H1
• 2020-02-20 Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-20 House substitute agreed to by Senate (29-Y 10-N)
• 2020-02-24 Enrolled
• 2020-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB115ER)
• 2020-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-25 Signed by President
• 2020-02-28 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 28, 2020
• 2020-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 6, 2020
• 2020-03-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 182 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/168f1ab0-98ca-47d3-ac93-8a4443cb6b63. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).