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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HB191	Enroll 75%	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 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
VA	HB1071	Enroll 75%	Reduction of speed limits; local authority. Expands the current authority of any locality to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Communicated to Governor
VA	HB645	Veto	Parking spaces reserved for charging electric vehicles; signs. Removes the requirement that signs noting that a parking space is reserved for charging plug-in electric motor vehicles include the civil penalty for parking in violation of such sign. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
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	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	HB924	Veto	Transportation network companies; publishing and disclosure requirements. Requires a transportation network company (TNC) to (i) issue an annual report to the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles containing the aggregate data regarding th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
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	HB1264	Veto	Juvenile fines, costs, and fees; traffic infractions; judicial discretion. Provides that any court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or guardian in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1454	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 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB1462	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 House sustained Governor's veto
VA	HB812	Enroll 75%	Special license plates; Sons of Confederate Veterans and Robert E. Lee. Repeals authorization for the issuance of Sons of Confederate Veterans and Robert E. Lee special license plates and provides that such special license plates already in circulati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Communicated to Governor
VA	HB213	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 634 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	SB194	Pass	Tangible personal property tax; classification; certain vehicles. Removes the sunset on authorization for localities to assign a rate of tax or assessment different from the general tangible personal property rate on certain automobiles, trucks, moto... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 665 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill)
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	HB845	Pass	Abandoned vehicles; owner and lienholder information. Provides that if an abandoned vehicle has been titled in another jurisdiction, the Department of Motor Vehicles, in its search for the owner or lienholder of such vehicle, may rely on information ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 645 (effective 7/1/24)
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	HB1287	Pass	Towing companies; local authority. Clarifies that the provisions of existing law authorizing localities in Planning District 8 to require towing companies that tow from the county, city, or town to a storage or release location outside of the localit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 653 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1502	Pass	Tangible personal property tax; classification; certain vehicles. Removes the sunset on authorization for localities to assign a rate of tax or assessment different from the general tangible personal property rate on certain automobiles, trucks, moto... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 660 (effective 7/1/24 - see bill)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 568 (effective 7/1/24)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 574 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB959	Pass	Towing violations; enforcement; fuel surcharge fee. Authorizes localities in Planning Districts 8 and 16 to require written authorization of the owner of the property from which the vehicle is towed at the time the vehicle is being towed and regulate... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 537 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1324	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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 552 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1080	Pass	License suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation; period of suspension. Prohibits any license suspensions due to driving during a period of suspension or revocation from extending beyond 10 years from the date of convict... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 543 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1538	Pass	Conversion of manufactured home to real property. Establishes a process whereby a manufactured home owner who is not listed as the owner of such manufactured home on its title may detitle such manufactured home in order to convert the home to real pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 567 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB234	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 (CHAP0436)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 497 (effective 7/1/24)
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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 510 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1224	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: Approved by Governor-Chapter 474 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1073	Pass	Tow truck drivers; prohibited acts. Prohibits tow truck drivers from driving by the scene of a wrecked or disabled vehicle for which a law-enforcement tow has been initiated by a law-enforcement agency, initiating contact with the owner or operator o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409)
VA	HB1082	Pass	Enforcement of certain judgments; restricted license. Authorizes the court to order a restricted license to operate a motor vehicle to a judgment debtor who has had his driver's license suspended for failure to satisfy certain judgments. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 467 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1084	Pass	Disabled parking placards; validity; fees. Extends from six months to 12 months the maximum duration for which the DMV may issue a temporary removable windshield placard to a person with a disability that limits or impairs his ability to walk or that... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 411 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1110	Pass	Toll facilities; vehicle owner. Provides that, in the context of automated toll enforcement, the exemption from the definition of "owner" for vehicle rental or vehicle leasing companies applies only if such companies meet existing requirements relate... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 470 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1163	Pass	Department of Motor Vehicles; medical review. Changes the standard for being denied a driver's license or having a driver's license reviewed or revoked for medical reasons by removing language regarding the presence of a disability or disease and req... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 414 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1335	Pass	Motor vehicle value; J.D. Power Official Used Car Guide. Adds the J.D. Power Official Used Car Guide to the list of publications from which the retail value of an automobile is admissible as evidence of fair market value of such automobile in any civ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 480 (effective 7/1/24)
VA	HB1419	Pass	Electronic sales by dealers; titling. Authorizes certain motor vehicle dealers to choose to sell a motor vehicle electronically by obtaining a title in the dealer's name for resale. This bill has a contingent effective date of the earlier of (i) July... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 418 (effective 7/1/25 - see bill)
VA	HB144	Pass	Change in speed limits; notification. Requires Change in speed limits; notification. Requires the Department of Transportation, if the Commissioner of Highways increases or decreases a speed limit, to notify the primary liaison with the Department in... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272)
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	HB925	Pass	Towing; vehicles with expired registration; civil penalty. Requires a towing operator, defined in the bill, for a parking lot of a multifamily dwelling unit, defined in the bill, to post written notice on a vehicle providing at least 48 hours' notice... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308)
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	HB380	Pass	Special license plates; United States Air Force. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for active duty members with, honorably discharged veterans with six months of active duty service in, and retirees from the United States Air Force an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0188)
VA	HB425	Pass	Department of Motor Vehicles; release of privileged information. Permits the Department of Motor Vehicles to release to a party that is subject to an administrative proceeding conducted by the Department nonmedical privileged information necessary to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189)
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	HB1112	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 (CHAP0216)
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	SB450	Pass	Regulation of towing fees; State Corporation Commission; report. Directs the State Corporation Commission to examine the existing regulation of fees charged for the removal of vehicles and identify policy options for the Commission to assume all or p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245)
VA	HB1362	Pass	School bus video-monitoring system; citations. Prohibits a contract between a private vendor and a school division for the operation of school bus video-monitoring systems to capture passing stopped school bus violations from requiring a minimum quot... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221)
VA	HB1526	Pass	Motor vehicles; overweight permits for certain trucks operated by electric utilities. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue overweight permits for an electric utility's operation of vehicles used for the construction, operation, or maint... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227)
VA	HB282	Pass	Moving violations; highway work zones. Creates a traffic infraction for any moving violation in a highway work zone punishable by a fine of not less than $300 for the first offense and not less than $500 for any subsequent offense. The bill provides ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-26 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138)
VA	HB24	Pass	Amber warning lights; certain hunting vehicles. Authorizes road whips, defined in the bill, who are operating vehicles during certain fox hunts to display flashing amber warning lights when such vehicles are not in motion for the purpose of warning o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095)
VA	HB844	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 (CHAP0107)