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Department of Housing and Community Development; Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing; criminal record screening model policy. Requires the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department), with input from a stakeholder group convened by the Department, to develop a criminal record screening model policy for admitting or denying an applicant for affordable housing covered under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in accordance with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's guidance on the application of the federal Fair Housing Act to the use of criminal records and maintain such model policy on its website. The bill prohibits a landlord of an affordable housing unit from basing an adverse action, in whole or in part, on an applicant's criminal or arrest record unless the landlord does so in accordance with the criminal record screening model policy developed by the Department and posted on its website and provides the applicant with a written copy of such policy. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department to convene a work group have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026.
Introduced
Jan 7, 2025
Last Action
Apr 2, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 0 co
Senate sustained Governor's veto
Passed by for the day
Vetoed by Governor
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
Signed by President
Enrolled
Signed by Speaker
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1128)
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1128ER)
House substitute agreed to by Senate (22-Y 14-N)
Read third time
Passed House with substitute (50-Y 47-N)
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
General Laws Substitute agreed to
Passed by for the day
Read second time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1128)
Reported from General Laws with substitute (13-Y 8-N)
Committee substitute printed 25106860D-H1
Referred to Committee on General Laws
Read first time
Placed on Calendar
Rules suspended
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
Read second time
Reading of substitute waived
Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
Rules suspended
Passed by for the day
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1128)
Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
Committee substitute printed 25105270D-S1
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1128)
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104557D
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
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Senate sustained Governor's veto
L. Louise Lucas