Housing-Consumer Protection Subcommittee

Thursday, February 5, 2026·1h 46m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Housing-Consumer Protection Subcommittee advanced bills on rental transparency, manufactured home protections, cosmetics safety, AI in lending, and streaming audio volume while killing or tabling contested measures on rural housing infrastructure, kratom regulation, energy efficiency codes, and landlord junk fees.

Key Actions

·HB 379 – Rental Application TransparencyPassed

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Controversies

Virginia's current energy code standing — HB 377

Delegate Bennett-Parker argued Virginia last fully implemented the IECC in 2009 and was 17 years behind, while Andrew Clark (Home Builders Association of Virginia) directly countered that Virginia is on the 2018 International Energy Code equivalent per US DOE and is already working toward the 2021 IECC with stakeholders. William Penniman testified that the board last fully implemented the IECC in 2009 and Virginia's code remains behind the 2012 IECC in key respects, which Clark disputed.

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Notable Quotes

“7Hydroxymetragine is a chemical man made compound. It's a full opioid agonist. What this means is it goes through your body, it goes to your brain, and it attaches to the same receptors as morphine and heroin. It attaches to these receptors. It's been shown to cause respiratory depression. It's been shown to cause euphoria. The thing is, when it binds to that receptor, it binds 15 times more strongly than morphine and heroin.”
Bob Durkin — Durkin, described as a former deputy director at the FDA under President Obama, testified in support of the Williams bill to ban 7-Hydroxymitrагynine, a compound found in some kratom products.

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Votes

Lay HB 1057 (Virginia Rural Housing Infrastructure Fund) on the tablePassed

Report HB 379 (rental application transparency) with substitutePassed

Report and refer HB 527 (Eviction Reduction Program) to Appropriations with substitutePassed

Lay Williams kratom bill on the tablePassed

Report HB 999 (AI in credit decisions) with substitute, refer to AppropriationsPassed

Report HB 374 (manufactured home lot rental protections) with substitute, refer to AppropriationsPassed

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TranscriptPreview

21 Bell docket for House housing Subcommittee. Clerk will open the roll. Members will mark their attendance on the electronic voting board. Clerk will close. The roll quorum is present so we can start. Delegate Phillips, you've got two bills we can knock off, I think fairly quickly. Which ones do you want to do first, if that's okay, Mr. Chair. House Bill 1509. All right. This is on the uniform statewide building code. Now, I'm going to let you present your bill. I do want to tell you and folks here that it's been the policy standing policy of this committee for a number of years to be very, very, very circumspect when it comes to regulating and legislating around the building. Good building, good issues. But if you would go ahead and explain your bill and then we'll decide what to do with it. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the committee, excuse me. HC 1509 basically looks to make the Uniform Code of Virginia actually uniform states like North Carolina, Maryland, a lot of other states that like particularly North Carolina, closer to where I live, a lot of people are contractors in both states, licensed in…

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