republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-576.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act; created, consumer protections."
description: "Consumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Commonwealth. The bill prohibits any real estate service agreement, defined in the bill, that is effective and binding for more than one year from its effective date from (i) purporting to run with the land or bind future owners of interests in the residential real property identified in the service agreement; (ii) allowing the service provider to assign or transfer the right to provide services under the service agreement without notice to and written agreement of all parties to the service agreement; or (iii) purporting to create a lien, encumbrance, or other real property security interest on the residential real property identified in the service agreement. This bill is identical to HB 1243."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 576"
citation: "Virginia SB 576 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam P. Ebbin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8251930b-b8b2-480e-8411-10e55333868c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB576"
source_hash: "3684b3810b667a10a9ba02752f669585c6f769bbee74324418ffe391f799ce8b"
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 SB 576 (2024) — Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act; created, consumer protections.

Consumer protection; creation of Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act. Creates the Unfair Real Estate Service Agreement Act and adds any violations of the Act to the list of prohibited violations of relevant consumer protection laws in the Commonwealth. The bill prohibits any real estate service agreement, defined in the bill, that is effective and binding for more than one year from its effective date from (i) purporting to run with the land or bind future owners of interests in the residential real property identified in the service agreement; (ii) allowing the service provider to assign or transfer the right to provide services under the service agreement without notice to and written agreement of all parties to the service agreement; or (iii) purporting to create a lien, encumbrance, or other real property security interest on the residential real property identified in the service agreement. This bill is identical to HB 1243.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0362** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0362)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24107740D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB576H1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101370D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB576)
4. **SB576ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB576ER)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 4-N) — **92–4** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101370D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (SB576)
- **2024-01-30** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-15** Committee substitute printed 24107740D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 24107740D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-20** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB576H1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-20** Passed House with substitute (93-Y 4-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-20** VOTE: Passage (93-Y 4-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-22** House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-02-22** Title replaced 24107740D-H1
- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB576H1)
- **2024-02-27** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-27** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB576ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB576ER)
- **2024-02-27** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 362 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0362)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8251930b-b8b2-480e-8411-10e55333868c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).