Lease agreements; requirements, emergency.
Summary
Specifies that a lease agreement or other written document conveying a non-freehold estate in land is not invalid, unenforceable, or subject to repudiation by the parties to such agreement on account of, or otherwise affected by, the fact that the conveyance of the estate was not in the form of a deed. Current law requires a lease for a term of more than five years to be in the form of a deed. The bill further replaces all references throughout the Code to "deed of lease" with the term "lease." This bill is in response to
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Jan 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Feb 2019
Introduced Jan 8, 2019
Signed Feb 13, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 6, 2019 · House of Delegates Jan 17, 2019
How they voted
33–0
Passed
Total votes 33
Feb 6, 2019
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican19
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
4
Committee
3
Feb 13, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 11 (effective 2/13/19)
executive
Feb 6, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (33-0)
senate
Jan 24, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
upper
Jan 23, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 17, 2019
House Of Delegates · Passed
House of Delegates Vote: pass (20-0)
house of delegates
Jan 14, 2019
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19101226D
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jay Leftwich
RRepublican
Co
Kathleen Murphy
DDemocratic
Co
T. Scott Garrett
RRepublican
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