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type: "Bill"
title: "Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel, stop certain order."
description: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a local, national, or global emergency that is effective for either an indefinite period or for a period of not less than 30 days and that prevents the service member from occupying the leased dwelling unit for a residential purpose. The bill also allows such military personnel to terminate a rental agreement after receiving any permanent change of station order or temporary duty order in excess of three months' duration. Current law allows such termination only for orders requiring a departure of 35 miles or more from the dwelling unit. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 213."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 352"
citation: "Virginia HB 352 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackie H. Glass"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acef1209-ba27-4d5d-88d1-78d007b754be"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB352"
source_hash: "bf22301570dc67b13f9ebd157931acf87130be14d31a0ab25423a9e3991a4611"
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 352 (2024) — Va. Residential Landlord & Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel, stop certain order.
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; early termination for military personnel; stop movement order; emergency. Allows certain military personnel to terminate a rental agreement upon receipt of a stop movement order issued in response to a local, national, or global emergency that is effective for either an indefinite period or for a period of not less than 30 days and that prevents the service member from occupying the leased dwelling unit for a residential purpose. The bill also allows such military personnel to terminate a rental agreement after receiving any permanent change of station order or temporary duty order in excess of three months' duration. Current law allows such termination only for orders requiring a departure of 35 miles or more from the dwelling unit. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to SB 213.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0028** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0028)
2. **HB352ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB352ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101154D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB352)
4. **Printed as engrossed 24101154D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB352E)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jackie H. Glass — primary (person)
- Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101154D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB352)
- **2024-01-25** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-25** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-30** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** Passed by for the day
- **2024-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-05** Emergency clause added
- **2024-02-05** Engrossed by House as amended HB352E
- **2024-02-05** Printed as engrossed 24101154D-E
- **2024-02-06** Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** VOTE: Passage Emergency (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (HB352E)
- **2024-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-21** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB352ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB352ER)
- **2024-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 28 (effective 3/8/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0028)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acef1209-ba27-4d5d-88d1-78d007b754be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).