republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-355.md

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Bill	VA Self-Service Storage Act; rental agreement may be delivered and accepted electronically.	Virginia Self-Service Storage Act. Permits a rental agreement for a leased self-service storage space to be delivered and accepted electronically. The bill permits a rental agreement to contain statements that the rental agreement is deemed accepted by the owner where the owner accepts rent or where the occupant accepts possession or delivers rent. Finally, the bill permits towing of any abandoned, immobilized, unattended, or trespassing vehicles or watercraft that are not authorized to be at the self-service storage facility.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 355	Virginia SB 355 (2024)	bill		enacted	Aaron R. Rouse	4	29	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1182f6f1-3fbe-403a-9eb1-d55c94a5db02	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB355	cda0e2e822d9d610b9e443cf8e1892456ae6e6977502e63e4b27c5000b6b182e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 355 (2024) — VA Self-Service Storage Act; rental agreement may be delivered and accepted electronically.

Virginia Self-Service Storage Act. Permits a rental agreement for a leased self-service storage space to be delivered and accepted electronically. The bill permits a rental agreement to contain statements that the rental agreement is deemed accepted by the owner where the owner accepts rent or where the occupant accepts possession or delivers rent. Finally, the bill permits towing of any abandoned, immobilized, unattended, or trespassing vehicles or watercraft that are not authorized to be at the self-service storage facility.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0673 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104345D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24104345D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB355ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aaron R. Rouse — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104345D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-01-24 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-01-29 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-29 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB355E
• 2024-01-29 Printed as engrossed 24104345D-E
• 2024-01-30 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-13 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-21 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB355ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-28 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
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 673 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0673)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1182f6f1-3fbe-403a-9eb1-d55c94a5db02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).