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Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct prohibited. Adds numerous actions to the list of prohibited retaliatory actions by a landlord against a tenant under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act and specifies actions by a tenant for which a landlord may not retaliate. The bill modifies and expands the list of actions a landlord may take without violating the prohibition on retaliation. The bill allows a tenant, when the landlord has unlawfully retaliated, to recover actual damages and to assert retaliation as a defense in any action brought against him for possession.
Introduced
Jan 11, 2026
Last Action
Mar 10, 2026
Session
VA 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 2 co
Senate amendment agreed to by House (79-Y 20-N 0-A)
Passed Senate with amendment (25-Y 15-N 0-A)
Engrossed by Senate as amended
General Laws and Technology Amendment agreed to
Read third time
Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Rules suspended
Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
Senate committee offered
Assigned GL&T sub: Housing
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (85-Y 13-N 0-A)
Read second time and engrossed
Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
Read first time
Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB329)
Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
Assigned HGL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
Referred to Committee on General Laws
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100665D
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Senate amendment agreed to by House (79-Y 20-N 0-A)
Adele Y. McClure
Rozia A. Henson, Jr.
Phil M. Hernandez