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Yes: 30 • No: 24
VirginiaHB7212025 Regular SessionHouse
Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty.
Sponsored By: Nadarius E. Clark (Democratic)
Failed
Summary
Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlords who are under the ordinance may be required to give at least two months' written notice of a rent increase and cannot increase the rent by more than the locality's calculated allowance, described in the bill as the maximum amount a landlord can increase a tenant's rent during any 12-month period, in effect at the time of the increase. The bill sets such allowance as equal to the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index or seven percent, whichever is less, states that such allowance is effective for a 12-month period beginning July 1 each year, and requires the locality to publish such allowance on its website by June 1 of each year. Certain facilities, as outlined in the bill, are exempt from such ordinance. The bill also allows a locality to establish an anti-rent gouging board that will develop and implement rules and procedures by which landlords may apply for and be granted exemptions from the rent increase limits set by the ordinance. Finally, the bill provides that a locality may establish a civil penalty for failure to comply with the requirements set out in the ordinance.
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Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Nadarius E. Clark
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 2/7/2024
Continued to 2025 with amendment(s) in Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/5/2024
Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 with amendment(s) (Voice Vote)
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 1/26/2024
Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns
Yes: 11 • No: 9
House vote • 1/26/2024
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Yes: 11 • No: 9
House vote • 1/25/2024
Subcommittee recommends reporting
Yes: 4 • No: 3
House vote • 1/25/2024
Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee for Courts of Justice
Yes: 4 • No: 3
Actions Timeline
Left in Courts of Justice
11/18/2024HouseContinued to 2025 with amendment(s) in Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
2/7/2024HouseCommittee amendment
2/7/2024HouseSubcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 with amendment(s) (Voice Vote)
2/5/2024HouseHouse subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
2/5/2024HouseAssigned Courts sub: Civil
1/29/2024HouseReferred to Committee for Courts of Justice
1/26/2024HouseReported from Counties, Cities and Towns (11-Y 9-N)
1/26/2024HouseSubcommittee recommends referring to Committee for Courts of Justice
1/25/2024HouseSubcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N)
1/25/2024HouseAssigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2
1/16/2024HouseReferred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
1/9/2024HousePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104529D
1/9/2024House
Bill Text
Introduced
1/30/2024
Amendment
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