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VAHB1071PassReduction 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 ...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842)
VAHB812VetoSpecial 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...
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2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor
VAHB191PassMotor 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...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0804)
VAHB645VetoParking 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.
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VASB246VetoLimited-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...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
VASB534PassMotor 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...
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2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791)
VAHB924VetoTransportation 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...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VASB447VetoFirearm 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...
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2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1264VetoJuvenile 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 ...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1454VetoLimited-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...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB1462VetoFirearm 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...
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2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto
VAHB213PassEmissions 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634)
VASB194PassTangible 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665)
VASB453PassEmissions 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0676)
VAHB845PassAbandoned 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 ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645)
VASB336PassPhoto 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0670)
VAHB1287PassTowing 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0653)
VAHB1502PassTangible 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...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660)
VASB6PassIssuance 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568)
VASB66PassTowing 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0574)
VAHB959PassTowing 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537)
VAHB1324PassIssuance 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0552)
VAHB1080PassLicense 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)
VAHB1538PassConversion 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...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0567)
VAHB234PassAll-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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436)
VASB151PassDepartment 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.
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497)
VASB516PassAll-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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510)
VAHB1224PassDepartment 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.
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474)
VAHB1073PassTow 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0409)
VAHB1082PassEnforcement 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.
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0467)
VAHB1084PassDisabled 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411)
VAHB1110PassToll 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470)
VAHB1163PassDepartment 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414)
VAHB1335PassMotor 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480)
VAHB1419PassElectronic 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...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418)
VAHB144PassChange 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272)
VASB94PassTow 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337)
VAHB925PassTowing; 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...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308)
VASB572PassMaximum width of vehicles; school buses. Increases from 100 inches to 102 inches the maximum total outside width permitted for school buses.
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361)
VAHB380PassSpecial 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0188)
VAHB425PassDepartment 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189)
VASB261PassTowed 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0232)
VAHB1112PassAuto 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 ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216)
VASB545PassAuto 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 ...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250)
VASB450PassRegulation 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0245)
VAHB1362PassSchool 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221)
VAHB1526PassMotor 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...
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2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227)
VAHB282PassMoving 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 ...
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2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138)
VAHB24PassAmber 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...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0095)
VAHB844PassCommercial 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 ...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0107)
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