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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1638: Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing, criminal record screening model policy.

Vetoed Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Vetoed

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1638 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Va. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; affordable housing, criminal record screening model policy. Primary sponsor: Cliff Hayes (Democratic). It lists 7 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 2, 2025): House sustained Governor's veto.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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, with input from a stakeholder group convened by the Department of Housing and Community Development, 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 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 of Housing and Community Development and posted on its website and provides the applicant with a written copy of such policy. The provisions of the bill other than the creation of the stakeholder group have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Cliff HayesPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse91
Destiny LeVere BollingCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse80
Nadarius ClarkCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse84
Rae CousinsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse79
Mike JonesCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate15
Karen Keys-GamarraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse7
Candi Mundon KingCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Briana SewellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse25

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. House sustained Governor's veto
  2. Vetoed by Governor
  3. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
  4. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2024
  5. Signed by President
  6. Signed by Speaker
  7. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1638)
  8. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1638ER)
  9. Enrolled
  10. Senate Amendment agreed to by House (Y-53 N-44 A-0)
  11. Passed by for the day
  12. Passed Senate with amendment (23-Y 15-N)

Showing 12 most recent of 31 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source