The Housing-Consumer Protection Subcommittee advanced six bills to full committee, with five passing unanimously and one — a fair housing bill expanding HOA harassment protections — passing six to one over Delegate Austin's dissent after the Attorney General's office rewrote the substitute to preserve federal equivalency status.
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An unnamed audience speaker argued that the bills accomplish two different things and that the only difference in subsection C is not substantive, contending the bills could coexist. The chair disagreed, explaining that the bills take slightly different approaches to the same problem — one requiring a free payment form before credit card fees can be charged, the other barring excess fees altogether regardless of whether a free form is offered — and proceeded to conform SB 313 to HB 1005.
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“I literally ordered a cutting board and was automatically enrolled into a membership that was in the very, very, very, very, very fine print. And I kept getting these $39 charges.”
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Sign in to subscribeIt. That's. I don't know what they're doing. Yeah, yeah, we saw that. I sent it to Sean. What sections go into in the stupid buyer disclosure. Yeah. Good afternoon. I'm going to call this first meeting of the General laws Housing subcommittee post crossover to order. Members will answer the roll on the electronic voting device. The clerk will close the roll. A quorum is present. They all have bills to present, I guess. All right. Senator reeves. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman. Got Senate Bill 577. Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee. This came at the request of the Virginia Military Advisory Council of Greater Northern Virginia and the leadership command and staff at Quantico. It has to do with some disclosures that in the realm Realtor community when you buy a house around the Marine Corps base, you're going to hear loud noises and your windows are going to rattle sometimes. And so working with the Realtors association to come up with the language before the committee. Now it's just going to say that they're going to put this little addendum in to the Virginia's Residential Property Disclosures act buyer beware section to ensure proximity to…
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