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type: "Bill"
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title: "Landlord and tenant law; transient lodging as primary residence."
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description: "Clarifies that the availability of the use of self-help eviction in certain circumstances to the owner of transient lodging shall not preclude such owner from pursuing any civil or criminal remedies under the laws of the Commonwealth."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2018"
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identifier: "HB 1227"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1227 (2018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Property and Conveyances"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr."]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2018-01-10"
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last_action: "2018-02-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c287389b-60e1-466f-8f81-1571652766e1"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1227"
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source_hash: "81c686197cd269b6a5f074cffa62392c0f0ba5317dbb795e8182177b7f54a45d"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1227 (2018) — Landlord and tenant law; transient lodging as primary residence.
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Clarifies that the availability of the use of self-help eviction in certain circumstances to the owner of transient lodging shall not preclude such owner from pursuing any civil or criminal remedies under the laws of the Commonwealth.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0050)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0050)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1227ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1227ER)
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3. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105617D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1227H1)
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4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101140D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1227)
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## Votes
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- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101140D `introduction`
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- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2018-01-19** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2018-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2018-02-02** Committee substitute agreed to 18105617D-H1
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- **2018-02-02** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1227H1
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- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
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- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
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- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
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- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
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- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
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- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 50 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c287389b-60e1-466f-8f81-1571652766e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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