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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; revises definition of community land trust."
description: "Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; definitions; community land trust. Revises the definition of a community land trust to remove the requirement that a community housing development organization under such definition must have a corporate membership open to any adult resident or organization of a particular geographic area specified in the bylaws of the organization and that the organization's board of directors must include a majority of members who are elected by the corporate membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2151"
citation: "Virginia HB 2151 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdebf810-41f6-4a39-a4f1-a6304c483869"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2151"
source_hash: "fa4cd904ac2fac0d0ac3f657f38136f77992f6b99e676e196e99ec0e651208c9"
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 2151 (2025) — Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; revises definition of community land trust.
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; definitions; community land trust. Revises the definition of a community land trust to remove the requirement that a community housing development organization under such definition must have a corporate membership open to any adult resident or organization of a particular geographic area specified in the bylaws of the organization and that the organization's board of directors must include a majority of members who are elected by the corporate membership.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015308.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1070910.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1057291.PDF)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) — **981** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (30-Y 9-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **71** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101609D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2151)
- **2025-01-20** Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- **2025-01-28** Reported from General Laws (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2151ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2151)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 28 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** 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/bdebf810-41f6-4a39-a4f1-a6304c483869`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).