2006 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 1365

File Code: Commercial Law - Consumer Protection
Sponsored By:
Delegates Walkup and Sossi
Entitled:
Home Builders - Installation of New Homes - Responsibility for Defects

Synopsis:

Specifying that a home builder that installs a new home is responsible to the owner for correcting any defects in any component incorporated into the new home, regardless of whether the new home is the responsibility of the manufacturer; and specifying that a new home under the Act is an industrialized building intended for residential use, a manufactured home, or a mobile home.

History by Legislative Date

House Action
2/10
First Reading Economic Matters
2/22
Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
3/25
Withdrawn
Senate Action
No Action

Sponsored by:

Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
Delegate Richard A. Sossi, District 36

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

CONSTRUCTION
CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES
CONTRACTORS -see also- HEATING & COOLING; HOME IMPROVEMENT
HOUSING -see also- APARTMENTS; CONDOMINIUMS; MOBILE HOMES
MOBILE HOMES

Bill affects the following Statute:

Business Regulation
( 4.5-604 )

Documents:

Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format): First Reading, Third Reading, Enrolled
Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format): Available
Amendments: None offered