The Virginia General Laws Committee advanced a broad slate of housing, consumer protection, and technology bills — including tenant notice protections, a cosmetics ingredients ban, and AI accountability measures — while the narrowest vote of the hearing (11-10) sent a .gov domain mandate for public bodies to Appropriations. Several building-code and workforce bills were continued to 2027.
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An unnamed delegate argued that small retailers could be caught selling products with prohibited ingredients without knowing, and stated concerns 'were not alleviated yet from talking with council.' A speaker identified as 'Delegates on' acknowledged the bill has no carve-out for small retailers and conceded it 'may not address all the delegates concerns,' but noted the subcommittee recommended reporting 9-1 anyway.
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“The totality of the days is 90 days, which gives people more time to figure out their housing situation. But it still gives the 60 days that are in there, but it gets an additional 30 to start looking. So it doesn't change anything else. Beyond that, there is peace in the valley. We have worked it out through everybody and there is agreement.”
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Sign in to subscribeGeneral laws is in session. We're going to take the roll. Clerk will close the roll. We have a quorum 17 present. Thank you. First, we're going to start with Delegate Maldonado, House Bill 678. And my understanding is there's a Chair. Simon, do you want to handle this? Sure. So, Mr. Chair, members of subcommittee. I think we had thought that there was an error and then discovered that the language that we dealt with at subcommittee is actually the intended language for the patron. So this bill was. Requires a landlord who owns more than four rental dwelling units or more than 10% interest in more than four dwelling units. Mr. Chairman, I'm going to move the substitute because we still have to move that. Okay, we have moved the subcommittee. Substitute. All right. It's been moved to second. All those in favor of substitute aye say aye. Opposed? All right, thank you, Chairman. And so again with the substitute, what this bill does is it requires landlords to allow a tenant no less than 30 days to inform the landlord of the tenant's intent to renew the rental agreement or vacate the dwelling unit in cases where…
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