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House committee advances bill to standardize criminal-history screening for state-funded rental housing with enactment delay
Summary
The House General Laws Committee reported House Bill 1638 with amendments to delay the law’s effective date and add the Home Builders Association of Virginia to a work group. The bill would establish a model criminal-history screening policy for state-financed rental housing to expand access while allowing screening as a factor.
Delegate Doug Hayes presented House Bill 1638 to the House General Laws Committee, asking the panel to advance a statutory model for criminal-history screening for applicants to state-supported rental housing.
"This is to establish a model criminal history screening policy, to pretty much create a fair chance and access, for those that are state financially supported rental housing," Delegate Doug…
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