2025 SESSION
SENATE SUBSTITUTE
25105063D
SENATE BILL NO. 748
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology
on January 15, 2025)
(Patron Prior to SubstituteSenator Favola)
A BILL to direct the Board of Housing and Community Development to evaluate changes to the Uniform Statewide Building Code addressing temperature regulation.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. 1. That the Board of Housing and Community Development shall, during the 2024 Virginia Code Development Cycle, evaluate potential revisions to Chapter 6 of the 2021 Virginia Property Maintenance Code to require that every owner and operator of a Group R-2 apartment building or other residential building that rents, leases, or lets one or more dwelling unit, rooming unit, or guestroom on terms, either expressed or implied, shall (i) supply cooling to the occupants thereof during the period from May 1 to October 15 to maintain a temperature of not more than 77 degrees Fahrenheit in all habitable rooms and (ii) furnish heat to the occupants thereof during the period from October 15 to May 1 to maintain a temperature of not less than 68 degrees Fahrenheit in all habitable rooms.