republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-634.md

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Bill	Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer.	Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer. Prohibits a locality from enacting or enforcing an ordinance that bans the rental of residential dwelling units for 30 consecutive days or longer. The bill allows a locality by ordinance to regulate such rental if such regulations (i) are reasonable and (ii) do not exceed the requirements for an owner-occupied residential property or a residential property rented for a lease term of 12 months or more in the same zoning district. This bill is identical to SB 308.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 634	Virginia HB 634 (2024)	bill		enacted	Marcus B. Simon	3	29	8	2024-01-09	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/eb2931dc-a3e7-4b2f-8874-2acbc65ab329	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB634	62fd0a31e5f82456522648af4dd4c714adc8d2e4dceb003bcbff2bc92e6d0444	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 634 (2024) — Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer.

Residential dwelling units; rentals for 30 consecutive days or longer. Prohibits a locality from enacting or enforcing an ordinance that bans the rental of residential dwelling units for 30 consecutive days or longer. The bill allows a locality by ordinance to regulate such rental if such regulations (i) are reasonable and (ii) do not exceed the requirements for an owner-occupied residential property or a residential property rented for a lease term of 12 months or more in the same zoning district. This bill is identical to SB 308. 

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0300 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB634ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101152D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws (19-Y 1-N) — 19–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Marcus B. Simon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101152D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (HB634)
• 2024-01-23 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-26 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-06 Reported from General Laws (19-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-09 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12 VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 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 (9-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 (HB634ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 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 300 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb2931dc-a3e7-4b2f-8874-2acbc65ab329. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).