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| Bill | Real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents; exemptions. | Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents; exemptions. Clarifies that the provisions related to real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents shall not apply to any person employed by a licensed real estate broker for and on behalf of the owner of any real estate or the improvements thereon that the licensed broker has contracted to manage for the owner if the actions of such employee are limited to (i) accepting and signing broker-approved rental agreements, state or federal required disclosures, and any documents required for compliance with Virginia Fair Housing Law related to such rental transaction and (ii) accepting security deposits, periodic rent, and other payments contracted for in the rental agreement for such real estate. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to HB 2557. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | SB 993 | Virginia SB 993 (2025) |
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Virginia SB 993 (2025) — Real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents; exemptions.
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents; exemptions. Clarifies that the provisions related to real estate brokers, salespersons, and rental location agents shall not apply to any person employed by a licensed real estate broker for and on behalf of the owner of any real estate or the improvements thereon that the licensed broker has contracted to manage for the owner if the actions of such employee are limited to (i) accepting and signing broker-approved rental agreements, state or federal required disclosures, and any documents required for compliance with Virginia Fair Housing Law related to such rental transaction and (ii) accepting security deposits, periodic rent, and other payments contracted for in the rental agreement for such real estate. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to HB 2557.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- General Laws Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Passed House (94-Y 0-N) — 94–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Angelia Williams Graves — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; Offered 01-08-2025 25102882D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2025-01-07 Emergency clause
- 2025-01-15 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-17 Rules suspended
- 2025-01-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-17 Passed by for the day
- 2025-01-20 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2025-01-21 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-01-24 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB993)
- 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
- 2025-02-05 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2025-02-06 Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-06 Committee substitute printed 25106839D-H1
substitution - 2025-02-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB993)
- 2025-02-10 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-11 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-11 General Laws Substitute agreed to
- 2025-02-11 Engrossed by House - committee substitute
substitution - 2025-02-11 Passed House with substitute (94-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-13 House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
substitution - 2025-02-18 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB993ER)
passage - 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB993)
- 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-02-20 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 Approved by Governor-Chapter 466 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a44638e-6f61-4dd4-b190-9ba1a604f333. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).