republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1243.md

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Bill	Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act; created, consumer protections.	Consumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Commonwealth. The bill prohibits any real estate service agreement, defined in the bill, that is effective and binding for more than one year from its effective date from (i) purporting to run with the land or bind future owners of interests in the residential real property identified in the service agreement; (ii) allowing the service provider to assign or transfer the right to provide services under the service agreement without notice to and written agreement of all parties to the service agreement; or (iii) purporting to create a lien, encumbrance, or other real property security interest on the residential real property identified in the service agreement. This bill is identical to SB 576.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1243	Virginia HB 1243 (2024)	bill		enacted	Michelle Lopes Maldonado	4	29	6	2024-01-10	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/9973d5f0-01bc-4d60-ae0b-3e3c50b36557	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1243	ef702c00b08bb802ac2350c1303a31c323cb541abbf38f27b3cea042a6dcd0aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1243 (2024) — Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act; created, consumer protections.

Consumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Commonwealth. The bill prohibits any real estate service agreement, defined in the bill, that is effective and binding for more than one year from its effective date from (i) purporting to run with the land or bind future owners of interests in the residential real property identified in the service agreement; (ii) allowing the service provider to assign or transfer the right to provide services under the service agreement without notice to and written agreement of all parties to the service agreement; or (iii) purporting to create a lien, encumbrance, or other real property security interest on the residential real property identified in the service agreement. This bill is identical to SB 576.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0328 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1243ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104485D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24104485D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (98-Y 2-N) — 97–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104485D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (HB1243)
• 2024-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-06 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by House as amended HB1243E
• 2024-02-09 Printed as engrossed 24104485D-E
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 2-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 2-N) passage
• 2024-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB1243E)
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1243ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB1243ER)
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 328 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9973d5f0-01bc-4d60-ae0b-3e3c50b36557. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).