republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-701.md

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Bill	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; routine maintenance, notice to tenant.	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;routine maintenance; notice to tenant. Requires landlords, unlessimpractical to do so, to provide a tenant with 72 hours' notice within14 days of routine maintenance. Current law requires a landlord togive at least 72 hours' notice for such maintenance but does notprovide a maximum window of time for such notice.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 701	Virginia HB 701 (2024)	bill		enacted	Michael B. Feggans	4	30	6	2024-01-09	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4fed9677-edb8-4039-a2d0-869a3863260d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB701	086ea2e83b398dda7f38a23406b56eea6c772bc0e31ad1037a3717ec0ffec612	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 701 (2024) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; routine maintenance, notice to tenant.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act;routine maintenance; notice to tenant. Requires landlords, unlessimpractical to do so, to provide a tenant with 72 hours' notice within14 days of routine maintenance. Current law requires a landlord togive at least 72 hours' notice for such maintenance but does notprovide a maximum window of time for such notice.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0046 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB701ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103625D (committee substitute) — source
4. Printed as engrossed 24103625D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michael B. Feggans — primary (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103625D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB701)
• 2024-01-23 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 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 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-02 Engrossed by House as amended HB701E
• 2024-02-02 Printed as engrossed 24103625D-E
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB701E)
• 2024-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-05 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-06 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-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
• 2024-02-22 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-22 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB701ER) passage
• 2024-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB701ER)
• 2024-02-22 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-25 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 46 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0046)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4fed9677-edb8-4039-a2d0-869a3863260d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).