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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement."
description: "Department of Housing and Community Development;Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement;work group. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia ResidentialLandlord and Tenant Act, prior to collecting any fee, deposit, orinformation from an applicant, to provide such applicant a fee disclosurestatement containing the amount and purpose of each fee or depositthat may be charged to an applicant. The bill requires the Directorof the Department of Housing and Community Development to developa sample fee disclosure statement that may be used by landlords forsuch purpose, explaining in plain language the amount and purposeof fees that may be charged to an applicant for tenancy. The billrequires the Department to convene a work group to make recommendationsfor the development of such sample fee disclosure statement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 405"
citation: "Virginia SB 405 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer B. Boysko"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab0057a4-1712-4765-9a6f-3d23a6e7f31e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB405"
source_hash: "59d04e2129a40ed6481f117529d3d32b426e18731cd8f1fadf281bcd9ed8798a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 405 (2024) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement.
Department of Housing and Community Development;Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement;work group. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia ResidentialLandlord and Tenant Act, prior to collecting any fee, deposit, orinformation from an applicant, to provide such applicant a fee disclosurestatement containing the amount and purpose of each fee or depositthat may be charged to an applicant. The bill requires the Directorof the Department of Housing and Community Development to developa sample fee disclosure statement that may be used by landlords forsuch purpose, explaining in plain language the amount and purposeof fees that may be charged to an applicant for tenancy. The billrequires the Department to convene a work group to make recommendationsfor the development of such sample fee disclosure statement.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0788** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0788)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24106884D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB405S1)
3. **Governor's substitute printed 24109289D-S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB405S2)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104748D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB405)
5. **SB405ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB405ER)
6. **SB405ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB405ER2)
## Votes
- VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 48-N) — **5148** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 1-N) — **141** (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from Rules (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 17-N) — **2317** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (12-Y 9-N) — **129** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N) — **5047** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104748D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (SB405)
- **2024-01-26** Rereferred from Rules (15-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Rereferred to General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-07** Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07** Committee substitute printed 24106884D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-02-09** Committee substitute agreed to 24106884D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-09** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB405S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-12** Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 17-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** Reported from General Laws (12-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** Passed House (51-Y 47-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-23** VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB405S1)
- **2024-02-28** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-28** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB405ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB405ER)
- **2024-02-28** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-02** 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** Governor's recommendation received by Senate `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2024-04-08** Governor's substitute printed 24109289D-S2
- **2024-04-17** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-04-17** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (52-Y 48-N)
- **2024-04-17** VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 48-N)
- **2024-04-17** Governor's recommendation adopted `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-17** Reenrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-17** Reenrolled bill text (SB405ER2) `enrolled`
- **2024-04-17** Signed by President as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2024-04-17** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled `enrolled, passage`
- **2024-04-17** Enacted, Chapter 788 (effective 7/1/24) `became-law`
- **2024-04-17** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab0057a4-1712-4765-9a6f-3d23a6e7f31e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).