| VA | SB246 | Veto | Limited-duration licenses and driver privilege cards and permits; expiration. Extends the validity of limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards, other than REAL ID credentials and commercial dri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB448 | Veto | Cannabis control; retail market; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing all m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB534 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; sale of franchise. Changes the deadline for a vehicle manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or distributor branch to reject the sale or transfer of a dealership from 30 days prior to the effective date of the sale or trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Enacted, Chapter 791 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB447 | Veto | Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Passed by for the day |
| VA | SB336 | Pass | Photo speed monitoring devices; high-risk intersection segments. Permits a state or local law-enforcement agency to place and operate a photo speed monitoring device at a high-risk intersection segment, defined in the bill, located within the localit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 670 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB453 | Pass | Emissions inspections; agreement for services; fees. Increases from $3,500 to $5,000 the amount the emissions inspection program coordinator may be paid per year from each motor vehicle emissions inspection station for the provision and maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 676 (effective 7/1/24) |
| VA | SB6 | Pass | Issuance of restricted driver's license for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated; completion of specialty dockets. Provides that a person whose driver's license has been revoked for multiple convictions of driving while intoxicated may f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| VA | SB66 | Pass | Towing without consent of vehicle owner; fee. Prohibits towing and recovery operators from requiring an individual who appears to retrieve a vehicle towed to provide to the towing and recovery operator, in addition to payment of fees, any document no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574) |
| VA | SB151 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; fees. Reduces the fee for the issuance of an original, duplicate, reissue, or renewal special identification card without a photograph from $10 per year with a $20 minimum fee to $2 per year with a $10 minimum fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) |
| VA | SB516 | Pass | All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510) |
| VA | SB94 | Pass | Tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators; prohibited acts; certain solicitation and offering of services; penalty. Prohibits tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators from causing any other person to solicit or offer towing servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) |
| VA | SB572 | Pass | Maximum width of vehicles; school buses. Increases from 100 inches to 102 inches the maximum total outside width permitted for school buses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) |
| VA | SB261 | Pass | Towed vehicles; stolen or misused vehicle; police report. Requires the owner of a vehicle that was stolen, illegally used, or used without his permission and subsequently subject to a law-enforcement initiated tow to provide the report number and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0232) |
| VA | SB545 | Pass | Auto recyclers; database search. Clarifies the databases to be searched by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon notification by an auto recycler that he possesses a motor vehicle to be demolished but does not possess a certificate of title, salvage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250) |
| VA | SB353 | Pass | Commercial driver's licenses and commercial learner's permits; definitions; commercial driver training; drug and alcohol violations. Conforms the definition of commercial motor vehicle to federal regulations, codifies the entry-level driver training ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121) |
| VA | SB150 | Pass | Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0077) |
| VA | SB205 | Pass | Toll invoices; mail. Authorizes the use of a trackable correspondence equivalent to certified mail for sending invoices for unpaid tolls to a vehicle owner prior to the Department of Motor Vehicles placing a registration stop on such vehicle due to u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068) |
| VA | SB452 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; independent dealer-operator recertification; exam. Permits the recertification of independent dealer-operators by passing an examination administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Current law provides that such recertifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0085) |
| VA | SB732 | Pass | Crash reports; contracted service providers. Authorizes law-enforcement agencies to utilize a contracted service provider to forward crash reports electronically to the Department of Motor Vehicles and manage or disseminate copies of certain crash re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0080) |
| VA | SB616 | Pass | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) |
| VA | SB535 | Engross
50% | School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB65 | Intro
25% | Issuing citations; vehicle equipment. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating with defective and unsafe equipment and removes the accompanying exclusionary provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB97 | Intro
25% | Motor vehicles; improper tinting films, signs, decals, and stickers; issuing citations. Removes the provisions that prohibit a law-enforcement officer from lawfully stopping a motor vehicle for violations related to improper tinting films, signs, dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB712 | Engross
50% | Release of hunting dogs; state highway or right-of-way. Creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for the intentional release of hunting dogs on a Department of Transportation right-of-way or on a highway owned or maintained by the Department of Transportation t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Chair votes No |
| VA | SB687 | Intro
25% | Careless driving and infliction of injury or death on vulnerable road users; penalty. Defines driving in a careless manner and distracted manner for purposes of the Class 1 misdemeanor of operating a motor vehicle in a careless or distracted manner s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB481 | Intro
25% | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB680 | Intro
25% | Manufactured homes; conversion to real property. Creates a process by which a manufactured home with a security interest may be converted to real property and provides requirements and procedures for doing so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB714 | Intro
25% | Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger vehicle exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on a highway; any driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB198 | Intro
25% | License plates; collector motor vehicles; penalty. Creates license plates for collector motor vehicles, defined in the bill, which the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall issue to any applicant who owns or has regular use of anothe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB648 | Intro
25% | Fire and Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund; funding for fire and emergency medical services. Increases the vehicle registration fee used to provide support for emergency medical services from $4.25 to $6.25 for each pickup or panel truck and each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB349 | Intro
25% | Vehicle inspections; new motor vehicles. Extends the timeframe following the first inspection of a new motor vehicle in which such vehicle must be inspected from 12 months after the first inspection to either 36 months after the first inspection or w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB446 | Intro
25% | State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
