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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 HB 352.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 213	Virginia SB 213 (2024)	bill		enacted	Russet Perry	4	31	5	2024-01-08	2024-03-26	openstates	ocd-bill/47b72d77-506e-475e-90f1-b2b08cf6be20	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB213	44b8cb87a670cb4950557c79b203e92d6f3960f2c604fdd063be351c49e2b121	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 213 (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 HB 352.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0154 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101371D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24101371D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB213ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Russet Perry — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101371D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB213)
• 2024-01-31 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-31 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-02-05 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-05 Emergency clause added
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB213E
• 2024-02-05 Printed as engrossed 24101371D-E
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB213E)
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-20 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB213ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB213ER)
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-29 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor-Chapter 154 (effective 3/26/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47b72d77-506e-475e-90f1-b2b08cf6be20. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).