republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-576.md

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Bill	Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act; created, consumer protections.	Consumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Commonwealth. The bill prohibits any real estate service agreement, defined in the bill, that is effective and binding for more than one year from its effective date from (i) purporting to run with the land or bind future owners of interests in the residential real property identified in the service agreement; (ii) allowing the service provider to assign or transfer the right to provide services under the service agreement without notice to and written agreement of all parties to the service agreement; or (iii) purporting to create a lien, encumbrance, or other real property security interest on the residential real property identified in the service agreement. This bill is identical to HB 1243.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 576	Virginia SB 576 (2024)	bill		enacted	Adam P. Ebbin	4	30	6	2024-01-10	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/8251930b-b8b2-480e-8411-10e55333868c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB576	3684b3810b667a10a9ba02752f669585c6f769bbee74324418ffe391f799ce8b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 576 (2024) — Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act; created, consumer protections.

Consumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Commonwealth. The bill prohibits any real estate service agreement, defined in the bill, that is effective and binding for more than one year from its effective date from (i) purporting to run with the land or bind future owners of interests in the residential real property identified in the service agreement; (ii) allowing the service provider to assign or transfer the right to provide services under the service agreement without notice to and written agreement of all parties to the service agreement; or (iii) purporting to create a lien, encumbrance, or other real property security interest on the residential real property identified in the service agreement. This bill is identical to HB 1243.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0362 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24107740D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101370D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB576ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (93-Y 4-N) — 92–4 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101370D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (SB576)
• 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 on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-15 Committee substitute printed 24107740D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-19 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Committee substitute agreed to 24107740D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-20 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB576H1 substitution
• 2024-02-20 Passed House with substitute (93-Y 4-N) passage
• 2024-02-20 VOTE: Passage (93-Y 4-N) passage
• 2024-02-22 House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-22 Title replaced 24107740D-H1
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB576H1)
• 2024-02-27 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-27 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB576ER) passage
• 2024-02-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB576ER)
• 2024-02-27 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-01 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 362 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8251930b-b8b2-480e-8411-10e55333868c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).