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type: "Bill"
title: "Uniform Statewide Building Code; notice to residents of code violations."
description: "Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to consider including in the current revision of the Uniform Statewide Building Code a provision designed to ensure that localities provide appropriate notice to residents of manufactured home parks of any Building Code violation by a park owner that jeopardizes the health and safety of those residents and to report to the General Assembly regarding the status of such efforts no later than November 1, 2017. The bill contains an emergency clause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2203"
citation: "Virginia HB 2203 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Legislation", "Housing", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luke E. Torian"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00fef0e5-6faf-4286-a9a3-c9f1bc7ff32a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2203"
source_hash: "027b04f5c6759202494566bb07c66574fa90d3f2dbf8f456b887366fbba5507e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 2203 (2017) — Uniform Statewide Building Code; notice to residents of code violations.
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to consider including in the current revision of the Uniform Statewide Building Code a provision designed to ensure that localities provide appropriate notice to residents of manufactured home parks of any Building Code violation by a park owner that jeopardizes the health and safety of those residents and to report to the General Assembly regarding the status of such efforts no later than November 1, 2017. The bill contains an emergency clause.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0731)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2203ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2203ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17105027D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2203H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102829D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2203)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **200** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Luke E. Torian — primary (person)
- Jackson H. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102829D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17105027D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Emergency clause added
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2203H1
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 731 (effective 3/24/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00fef0e5-6faf-4286-a9a3-c9f1bc7ff32a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).