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type: "Bill"
title: "Real property; required disclosures for buyer to exercise due diligence, flood risk report."
description: "Property; required disclosures for buyer toexercise due diligence; flood risk report. Requires the Departmentof Conservation and Recreation (the Department) to (i) develop, maintain,and update on its public website a statewide database and an officialmap of any parcel of real property in the Commonwealth and (ii) makeavailable on its website a copy of a flood risk report for each parcelof real property in the Commonwealth, the details of which are outlinedin the bill. The bill adds obtaining a flood risk report from theDepartment to the list of things a purchaser is advised to exercise due diligence on when purchasing a property. The bill also providesthat an owner of residential real property located in the Commonwealthwho has actual knowledge that the dwelling unit is a repetitive riskloss structure, as defined in the bill, shall disclose such factto the purchaser on a form provided by the Real Estate Board on itswebsite. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022.The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a generalappropriation act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1389"
citation: "Virginia SB 1389 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/687512f4-f3ad-4a90-bc9b-11bdb680c813"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1389"
source_hash: "f54d6e1274e5745d3b6e71a924796f10d0d36c57b423071bd5950be1104efa44"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 1389 (2021) — Real property; required disclosures for buyer to exercise due diligence, flood risk report.
Property; required disclosures for buyer toexercise due diligence; flood risk report. Requires the Departmentof Conservation and Recreation (the Department) to (i) develop, maintain,and update on its public website a statewide database and an officialmap of any parcel of real property in the Commonwealth and (ii) makeavailable on its website a copy of a flood risk report for each parcelof real property in the Commonwealth, the details of which are outlinedin the bill. The bill adds obtaining a flood risk report from theDepartment to the list of things a purchaser is advised to exercise due diligence on when purchasing a property. The bill also providesthat an owner of residential real property located in the Commonwealthwho has actual knowledge that the dwelling unit is a repetitive riskloss structure, as defined in the bill, shall disclose such factto the purchaser on a form provided by the Real Estate Board on itswebsite. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2022.The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a generalappropriation act.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0323** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0323)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103860D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1389S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102797D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1389)
4. **SB1389ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1389ER)
5. **SB1389ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1389ES1)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (20-Y 2-N) — **202** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (94-Y 5-N) — **935** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws — **00** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102797D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Impact statement from DPB (SB1389)
- **2021-01-27** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-27** Committee substitute printed 21103860D-S1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-27** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB1389S1)
- **2021-02-03** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
- **2021-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 21103860D-S1
- **2021-02-04** Reading of amendment waived
- **2021-02-04** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2021-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB1389ES1
- **2021-02-04** Printed as engrossed 21103860D-ES1
- **2021-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-07** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws
- **2021-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB1389ES1)
- **2021-02-11** Reported from General Laws (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-15** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** Passed House (94-Y 5-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-16** VOTE: Passage (94-Y 5-N)
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB1389ER)
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 323 (effective 1/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/687512f4-f3ad-4a90-bc9b-11bdb680c813`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).