republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1272.md

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Bill	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; copy of rental agreement for tenant.	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; copy of rental agreement for tenant. Requires a landlord to provide a copy of the signed written rental agreement to the tenant within 10 business days of the effective date of the rental agreement and to provide additional hard copies of the rental agreement upon request or to maintain such rental agreement in an electronic format that can be easily accessed by or shared with the tenant upon request. The bill also prohibits a landlord from charging a tenant for any such additional copies of his rental agreement.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1272	Virginia HB 1272 (2024)	bill		enacted	Katrina Callsen	5	39	8	2024-01-10	2024-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/506bfd50-8c13-4ef3-894a-f0231937d25a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1272	d97d36cbf9a30027788ed602526d571c83ae82e5192bbd6af8d057c1d4b6b34c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1272 (2024) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; copy of rental agreement for tenant.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; copy of rental agreement for tenant. Requires a landlord to provide a copy of the signed written rental agreement to the tenant within 10 business days of the effective date of the rental agreement and to provide additional hard copies of the rental agreement upon request or to maintain such rental agreement in an electronic format that can be easily accessed by or shared with the tenant upon request. The bill also prohibits a landlord from charging a tenant for any such additional copies of his rental agreement.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0831 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1272ER (committee substitute) — source
3. HB1272ER2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103650D (committee substitute) — source
5. Printed as engrossed 24103650D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (68-Y 31-N) — 67–31 (pass) · lower
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (17-Y 3-N) — 17–3 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (77-Y 20-N) — 76–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Katrina Callsen — primary (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103650D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB1272)
• 2024-01-26 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-06 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (17-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by House as amended HB1272E
• 2024-02-09 Printed as engrossed 24103650D-E
• 2024-02-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB1272E)
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed House (68-Y 31-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12 VOTE: Passage (68-Y 31-N) passage
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-08 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-08 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1272ER) passage
• 2024-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB1272ER)
• 2024-03-08 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-09 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
• 2024-04-08 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2024-04-17 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (77-Y 20-N)
• 2024-04-17 VOTE: Adoption (77-Y 20-N)
• 2024-04-17 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-04-17 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2024-04-17 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-17 Reenrolled bill text (HB1272ER2) enrolled
• 2024-04-17 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2024-04-17 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2024-04-17 Enacted, Chapter 831 (effective 7/1/24) became-law
• 2024-04-17 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0831)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/506bfd50-8c13-4ef3-894a-f0231937d25a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).