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type: "Bill"
title: "Rental conveyances; relocates certain provisions related to assignments of rent."
description: "Rental conveyances; leases; assignments. Relocates certain provisions of Title 55.1 (Property and Conveyances) of the Code of Virginia related to assignments of rent from a chapter related to nonresidential tenancies to a chapter related to leases. The bill corrects a technical error from the 2019 recodification of Title 55 of the Code of Virginia. This bill is identical to SB 589."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 312"
citation: "Virginia HB 312 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra D. Gardner"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/011cf48e-e4de-4fe4-8e84-6891e7013192"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB312"
source_hash: "e0ce34eb7f999a4556705e08455bae638d80d26287222da03cb48bc63ad7277a"
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 HB 312 (2024) — Rental conveyances; relocates certain provisions related to assignments of rent.
Rental conveyances; leases; assignments. Relocates certain provisions of Title 55.1 (Property and Conveyances) of the Code of Virginia related to assignments of rent from a chapter related to nonresidential tenancies to a chapter related to leases. The bill corrects a technical error from the 2019 recodification of Title 55 of the Code of Virginia. This bill is identical to SB 589.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0027** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0027)
2. **HB312ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB312ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102626D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB312)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) — **90** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Debra D. Gardner — primary (person)
- Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
- Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
- Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102626D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-23** Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-29** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-01-30** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-21** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB312ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 27 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0027)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/011cf48e-e4de-4fe4-8e84-6891e7013192`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).