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SB182Introduced in the Senate

Short-term rental properties; human trafficking awareness training, delayed effective date.

EngrossedHouse Appropriations

Introduced by Angelia Williams Graves, District 21

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Short-term rental properties; human trafficking awareness training. Requires every operator, defined in the bill, and its employees to complete an approved training course on recognizing and reporting instances of suspected human trafficking, as provided or approved by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, by January 1, 2028, and every two years thereafter. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2027. The bill contains technical amendments.

Where it stands

Left in Appropriations

March 10, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

1 recorded vote · each counted separately

Senate votes

4 recorded votes · each counted separately

House of DelegatesStage: Reported from General Laws and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) · February 19, 2026

21

Yes

0

No

1

Absent or Not Voting

22 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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Bill history

  1. Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100926D

  2. Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology

  3. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB182)

  4. Senate committee offered

  5. Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

  6. Committee substitute printed 26105290D-S1

  7. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB182)

  8. Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

  9. Rules suspended

  10. Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  11. Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)

  12. Passed by for the day

  13. Read second time

  14. General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to

  15. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote)

  16. Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  17. Placed on Calendar

  18. Read first time

  19. Referred to Committee on General Laws

  20. Reported from General Laws and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N)

  21. Left in Appropriations

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