Virginia · Senate Bill 596 · 2025 Regular Session

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement.

  1. Introduced Jan 10, 2024
  2. In committee Jan 10, 2024
  3. Died  
  4. Passed the House of Delegates  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law  

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; emergency eviction process. Reduces from 15 to seven the number of days, after the date upon which a tenant is served a landlord's intent to terminate the tenancy due to certain illegal activities by the tenant, within which the initial hearing on the landlord's action for immediate possession of the premises shall be held. The bill also reorganizes certain provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to consolidate language and organize the structure of certain provisions of the Act.

Every action

5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. SenatePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104621D
  2. CommitteeReferred to Committee on General Laws and Technology · Senate General Laws and Technology
  3. SenateImpact statement from DPB (SB596)
  4. CommitteeContinued to 2025 in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) · Senate General Laws and Technology
  5. CommitteeLeft in General Laws and Technology · Senate General Laws and Technology

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Virginia's official records (lis.blob.core.windows.net), checked Nov 13, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.