republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-308.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 HB 634.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 308	Virginia SB 308 (2024)	bill		enacted	Jeremy S. McPike	3	28	8	2024-01-09	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/dfd2b8ca-cd49-4f06-94b1-8fe08f7bba9a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB308	b21b9563c803ae2380fad94b7d0812016fed21402d049716e2aa8ff0d82dd5ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 308 (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 HB 634.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0347 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104977D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB308ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeremy S. McPike — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104977D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (SB308)
• 2024-02-07 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB308ER) passage
• 2024-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 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
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 347 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfd2b8ca-cd49-4f06-94b1-8fe08f7bba9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).