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type: "Bill"
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title: "Lease agreements; requirements, emergency."
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description: "Specifies that a lease agreement or other written document conveying a non-freehold estate in land is not invalid, unenforceable, or subject to repudiation by the parties to such agreement on account of, or otherwise affected by, the fact that the conveyance of the estate was not in the form of a deed. Current law requires a lease for a term of more than five years to be in the form of a deed. The bill further replaces all references throughout the Code to \"deed of lease\" with the term \"lease.\" This bill is in response to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2019"
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identifier: "HB 2287"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2287 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Emergency Legislation", "Property and Conveyances"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["James A. \"Jay\" Leftwich"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2019-01-08"
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last_action: "2019-02-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f50ec59-fc4f-48af-a6b5-2dd661cf1b0a"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2287"
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source_hash: "3dbcc5ab6bbdcb66ec15fb696fd427faaa3780fdcafaaf5d8f4d845f7b6382a7"
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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 2287 (2019) — Lease agreements; requirements, emergency.
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Specifies that a lease agreement or other written document conveying a non-freehold estate in land is not invalid, unenforceable, or subject to repudiation by the parties to such agreement on account of, or otherwise affected by, the fact that the conveyance of the estate was not in the form of a deed. Current law requires a lease for a term of more than five years to be in the form of a deed. The bill further replaces all references throughout the Code to "deed of lease" with the term "lease." This bill is in response to
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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 (CHAP0011)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0011)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2287ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2287ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101226D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2287)
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## Votes
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)
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- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
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- T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101226D `introduction`
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- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-14** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-06** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2019-02-07** Enrolled
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- **2019-02-07** Signed by Speaker
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- **2019-02-07** Signed by President
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- **2019-02-08** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 8, 2019
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- **2019-02-08** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 15, 2019
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- **2019-02-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 11 (effective 2/13/19) `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/3f50ec59-fc4f-48af-a6b5-2dd661cf1b0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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