Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act; retaliatory conduct prohibited. Adds numerous actions to the list of prohibited retaliatory actions by a landlord against a tenant under the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and Manufactured Home Lot Rental Act and specifies actions by a tenant for which a landlord may not retaliate. The bill modifies and expands the list of actions a landlord may take without violating the prohibition on retaliation. The bill allows a tenant, when the landlord has unlawfully retaliated, to recover actual damages and to assert retaliation as a defense in any action brought against him for possession.

Statutes affected:
House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104625D: 55.1-1258, 55.1-1314
House: Committee substitute printed 24106862D-H1: 55.1-1258, 55.1-1314
House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB817ER): 55.1-1258, 55.1-1314