republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1221.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 HB 2415.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1221	Virginia SB 1221 (2025)	bill		enacted	Lashrecse D. Aird	6	44	10	2025-01-08	2025-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/0e145853-02ec-4472-9a45-cacb4c5d639e	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1221	03a40c27e90ab0cbd9ee3c214c9607403ab8d1c5c0a556f24d3bc052c40baeac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1221 (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 HB 2415.

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 Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Governor Substitute Not Adopted (committee substitute) — source
5. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House with substitute (56-Y 41-N) — 56–41 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 21-N) — 19–21 (fail) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 2-N) — 37–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101846D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2025-01-22 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-23 Committee substitute printed 25105735D-S1 substitution
• 2025-01-24 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-27 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-27 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-27 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-01-28 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-02 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1221)
• 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25107096D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1221)
• 2025-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-13 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-13 Passed House with substitute (56-Y 41-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 2-N) substitution
• 2025-02-17 Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-17 Passed by temporarily
• 2025-02-17 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1221ER) passage
• 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1221)
• 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by Senate executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-03-24 Governor's substitute printed (SB1221S2)
• 2025-03-25 Governor's substitute printed (SB1221S2)
• 2025-04-02 Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 21-N) veto-override-passage
• 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 688 (Effective - see bill) executive-signature
• 2025-05-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0688)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e145853-02ec-4472-9a45-cacb4c5d639e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).