republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2415.md

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Bill	Public housing authorities; indigent parties, unlawful detainer.	Public housing authorities; indigent parties; unlawful detainer. Exempts indigent defendants from having to post an appeal bond in unlawful detainer actions brought by a public housing authority. The bill also amends certain provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to (i) prohibit any landlord that is a public housing authority from requiring a tenant to pay any fees for the maintenance or repair of a dwelling unit unless such repair is necessitated by the tenant's action or omission and (ii) require, if a public housing authority issues a notice of nonpayment of rent to a tenant, such public housing authority to provide the tenant certain information printed on pink or orange paper explaining how the tenant may recertify the tenant's income in accordance with federal law and policy. This bill is identical to SB 1221.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2415	Virginia HB 2415 (2025)	bill		enacted	Rae Cousins	7	43	9	2025-01-08	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/36cac324-b8cb-4cfd-a337-ab5bd0e6214c	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2415	f2b3e11d9ac0417908fd15dae03ca23dd7d3e9f5c198c5b5e17ef939fa9be78d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2415 (2025) — Public housing authorities; indigent parties, unlawful detainer.

Public housing authorities; indigent parties; unlawful detainer. Exempts indigent defendants from having to post an appeal bond in unlawful detainer actions brought by a public housing authority. The bill also amends certain provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to (i) prohibit any landlord that is a public housing authority from requiring a tenant to pay any fees for the maintenance or repair of a dwelling unit unless such repair is necessitated by the tenant's action or omission and (ii) require, if a public housing authority issues a notice of nonpayment of rent to a tenant, such public housing authority to provide the tenant certain information printed on pink or orange paper explaining how the tenant may recertify the tenant's income in accordance with federal law and policy. This bill is identical to SB 1221.

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. Courts of Justice Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 7-N) — 13–7 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (54-Y 44-N) — 54–44 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (54-Y 44-N) — 54–44 (pass) · lower
• Passed by for the day — 47–46 (pass) · lower
• Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rae Cousins — primary (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102142D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2415)
• 2025-01-21 Referred from General Laws and referred to Courts of Justice (Voice Vote) referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) substitution
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 7-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Committee substitute printed 25106290D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (54-Y 44-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-02-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2415)
• 2025-02-12 Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Courts of Justice (10-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (10-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Committee substitute printed 25107198D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2415)
• 2025-02-18 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-18 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-19 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-19 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-19 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate substitute agreed to by House (54-Y 44-N) substitution
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2415ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2415)
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 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
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (HB2415H2)
• 2025-04-02 Passed by for the day (47-Y 46-N)
• 2025-04-02 Communicated to Governor
• 2025-04-02 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 2, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-05-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 684 (Effective -see bill) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36cac324-b8cb-4cfd-a337-ab5bd0e6214c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).