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HB5120

Guests of trans. lodging facilities impacted by COVID-19 pandemic; suspending self-help evictions.

Status:
Killed

Chief Patron:
Clint Jenkins (D)

Session:
2020 Special Session I

Summary

As Introduced. Guests of transient lodging facilities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; suspending self-help evictions; emergency.

Suspends provisions of the Code of Virginia that allow an innkeeper or property owner of a hotel, motel, extended stay facility, vacation residential facility, boardinghouse, or similar transient lodging to evict a guest using self-help methods during the declared public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic and replaces those provisions with a requirement that guests who demonstrate that their stay is a direct or indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic only be evicted according to the provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, including the necessity of the filing of an unlawful detainer action in a court of competent jurisdiction and the execution of a writ of eviction issued pursuant to such action. The bill contains an emergency clause. (Less)
  • Bill History

  • 08/24/2020 - House: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20200603D
  • 08/24/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws