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Bill	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods.	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods. Prohibits a landlord subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from charging a tenant any fee for the collection or processing of any payment of rent, security deposit, or any other fees, unless the landlord offers an alternative method of payment that does not include additional fees. This bill is identical to SB 1356.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2218	Virginia HB 2218 (2025)	bill		enacted	Kathy K.L. Tran	7	38	8	2025-01-07	2025-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/60d21cee-358d-44c7-9a98-b1173259fc6f	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2218	ba4868e04144583f1a69e7d079bbe78566c152fb27aa5c4785135606c25118db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2218 (2025) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; rental payment methods. Prohibits a landlord subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from charging a tenant any fee for the collection or processing of any payment of rent, security deposit, or any other fees, unless the landlord offers an alternative method of payment that does not include additional fees. This bill is identical to SB 1356.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. General Laws Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
5. HGL Sub: Housing/Consumer Protection Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Reenrolled (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N) — 51–48 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• House concurred in Governor's recommendation (90-Y 4-N) — 90–4 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100872D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2218)
• 2025-01-20 Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 3-N)
• 2025-01-28 Reported from General Laws with substitute (12-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Committee substitute printed 25106170D-H1 substitution
• 2025-01-29 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2218)
• 2025-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-31 General Laws Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-03 Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-17 Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) passage
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2218ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2218)
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (90-Y 4-N)
• 2025-04-02 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-04-02 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled bill text (HB2218ER2) enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Enacted, Chapter 655 (Effective 07/01/25) became-law
• 2025-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0655)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60d21cee-358d-44c7-9a98-b1173259fc6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).