Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices, sources of funds.
Summary
Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; source of funds. Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of funds to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill creates an exemption for an owner or owner's managing agent, provided that such owner does not own more than four rental dwelling units or more than a 10 percent interest in more than four rental dwelling units in the Commonwealth at the time of the alleged discriminatory housing practice. The bill allows an owner or owner's managing agent to deny or limit a person's rental or occupancy of a rental dwelling unit based on the person's source of funds for that unit if such source is not approved within 15 days of the person's submission of the request for tenancy approval. The bill defines "source of funds" as any source that lawfully provides funds to or on behalf of a renter or buyer of housing, including any assistance, benefit, or subsidy program, whether such program is administered by a governmental or nongovernmental entity. This bill incorporates HB 357.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Nov 18, 2019
Signed Mar 27, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
41
Key actions
12
Committee
10
Amendments
4
Mar 27, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 477 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 4, 2020
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (57-Y 38-N)
lower
Mar 3, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendments (25-Y 15-N)
upper
Mar 3, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Amendment by Senator McCLellan agreed to
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Feb 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 26, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N 2-A)
upper
Feb 19, 2020
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 19, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (8-Y 6-N)
upper
Feb 10, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
upper
Feb 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (61-Y 37-N)
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB6H1
lower
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 20107395D-H1
lower
Feb 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from General Laws with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
lower
Jan 30, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 15, 2020
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Housing/Consumer Protection
lower
Nov 18, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
lower
Nov 18, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100177D
lower
1 primary · 24 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jeff Bourne
DDemocratic
Co
Alex Q. Askew
DDemocratic
Co
Alfonso Lopez
DDemocratic
Co
Betsy Carr
DDemocratic
Co
Charniele Herring
DDemocratic
Co
Cia Price
DDemocratic
Co
Clint Jenkins
DDemocratic
Co
Dan Helmer
DDemocratic
Co
Danica Roem
DDemocratic
Co
Delores McQuinn
DDemocratic
Co
Hala S. Ayala
DDemocratic
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