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Withdrawn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