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| Bill | Emergency laws; civil relief, citizens furloughed or otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments. | Emergency laws; civil relief; citizens furloughedor otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments due to state ofemergency; COVID-19 pandemic. Provides a 60-day stay of an unlawful detainer for nonpayment of rent for tenants and a 30-day stay offoreclosure proceedings for owners of any residential dwelling unitand for homeowners of a one-family to four-family residential dwellingunit who request a stay and provide written proof, defined in thebill, that they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic during theperiod for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency (theEmergency). The bill requires owners of residential dwelling unitsand homeowners who rent to a tenant a one-family to four-family residentialdwelling unit to request such stay of foreclosure proceedings within90 days of the initial declaration of the Emergency or 90 days followingthe end of the Emergency, whichever is later. The bill contains anemergency clause and provides for an expiration of the provisions90 days following the end of the Emergency. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020specialI | HB 5115 | Virginia HB 5115 (2020specialI) |
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enacted | 5 | 49 | 11 | 2020-08-23 | 2020-11-09 | openstates | ocd-bill/240ff2d3-2783-417e-a0a6-c43bd5f29698 | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5115 | 6c1877f1c7f6e6f62621db09944bc1965f131939c27dd6a18ffec2757181b7b1 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 5115 (2020specialI) — Emergency laws; civil relief, citizens furloughed or otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments.
Emergency laws; civil relief; citizens furloughedor otherwise receiving reduced wages or payments due to state ofemergency; COVID-19 pandemic. Provides a 60-day stay of an unlawful detainer for nonpayment of rent for tenants and a 30-day stay offoreclosure proceedings for owners of any residential dwelling unitand for homeowners of a one-family to four-family residential dwellingunit who request a stay and provide written proof, defined in thebill, that they are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic during theperiod for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency (theEmergency). The bill requires owners of residential dwelling unitsand homeowners who rent to a tenant a one-family to four-family residentialdwelling unit to request such stay of foreclosure proceedings within90 days of the initial declaration of the Emergency or 90 days followingthe end of the Emergency, whichever is later. The bill contains anemergency clause and provides for an expiration of the provisions90 days following the end of the Emergency.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0049) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5115ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by House as amended HB5115E (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed by House as amended HB5115E (committee substitute) — source
- Reenrolled bill text (HB5115ER2) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate with amendment (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N) — 35–0 (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment (34-Y 5-N) — 34–5 (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (37-Y 1-N) — 37–1 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 40-N) — 54–40 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 40-N) — 56–40 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 41-N) — 52–41 (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws (12-Y 8-N) — 12–8 (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-08-23 Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20200946D
introduction - 2020-08-23 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2020-08-24 Reported from General Laws (12-Y 8-N)
committee-passage - 2020-08-26 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-08-27 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-08-27 Amendment by Delegate Simon agreed to
amendment-passage - 2020-08-27 Emergency clause deleted
- 2020-08-27 Engrossed by House as amended HB5115E
- 2020-08-27 Printed as engrossed 20200946D-E
- 2020-08-28 Read third time and passed House (55-Y 40-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-08-28 VOTE: Passage (55-Y 40-N)
- 2020-09-02 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-09-02 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2020-09-16 Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 2020-09-16 Rereferred to General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2020-09-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB5115E)
- 2020-09-18 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-09-18 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2020-09-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 2020-09-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-09-25 Reading of amendment waived
- 2020-09-25 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2020-09-25 Passed Senate with amendment (35-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-09-25 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 2020-09-25 Passed by for the day
- 2020-10-01 Passed by temporarily
- 2020-10-01 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-10-01 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2020-10-01 Passed Senate with amendment (34-Y 5-N)
passage - 2020-10-02 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-10-02 Senate amendment agreed to by House (53-Y 41-N)
- 2020-10-02 VOTE: Adoption (53-Y 41-N)
- 2020-10-07 Enrolled
- 2020-10-07 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-10-07 Signed by President
- 2020-10-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 14, 2020
- 2020-10-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020
- 2020-10-21 Governor's recommendation received by House
- 2020-10-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB5115ER)
- 2020-11-09 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (57-Y 40-N)
- 2020-11-09 VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 40-N)
- 2020-11-09 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (37-Y 1-N)
- 2020-11-09 Emergency clause added by Governor's recommendation
- 2020-11-09 Governor's recommendation adopted
- 2020-11-09 Reenrolled
- 2020-11-09 Reenrolled bill text (HB5115ER2)
- 2020-11-09 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 2020-11-09 Signed by President as reenrolled
- 2020-11-09 Enacted, Chapter 49 (effective 11/9/20)
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/240ff2d3-2783-417e-a0a6-c43bd5f29698. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).