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Bill	Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel, stop certain order.	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a local, national, or global emergency that is effective for either an indefinite period or for a period of not less than 30 days and that prevents the service member from occupying the leased dwelling unit for a residential purpose. The bill also allows such military personnel to terminate a rental agreement after receiving any permanent change of station order or temporary duty order in excess of three months' duration. Current law allows such termination only for orders requiring a departure of 35 miles or more from the dwelling unit. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 213.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 352	Virginia HB 352 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jackie H. Glass	4	33	6	2024-01-05	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/acef1209-ba27-4d5d-88d1-78d007b754be	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB352	bf22301570dc67b13f9ebd157931acf87130be14d31a0ab25423a9e3991a4611	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 352 (2024) — Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel, stop certain order.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a local, national, or global emergency that is effective for either an indefinite period or for a period of not less than 30 days and that prevents the service member from occupying the leased dwelling unit for a residential purpose. The bill also allows such military personnel to terminate a rental agreement after receiving any permanent change of station order or temporary duty order in excess of three months' duration. Current law allows such termination only for orders requiring a departure of 35 miles or more from the dwelling unit. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 213.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0028 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB352ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101154D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24101154D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jackie H. Glass — primary (person)
• Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101154D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB352)
• 2024-01-25 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-25 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-30 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-02 Passed by for the day
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-05 Emergency clause added
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by House as amended HB352E
• 2024-02-05 Printed as engrossed 24101154D-E
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB352E)
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-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 (HB352ER) passage
• 2024-02-21 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB352ER)
• 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 28 (effective 3/8/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/acef1209-ba27-4d5d-88d1-78d007b754be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).