Motor vehicle registration, licensing, and certificates of title statutes; reorganization, etc.
Summary
Moves the criminal offenses related to registration, licensing, and certificates of title included within § 46.2-613 to § 46.2-612. The bill reorganizes these statutes so that § 46.2-612 contains only criminal offenses and § 46.2-613 contains only traffic infractions. The bill removes the authority of the court to dismiss a summons for a criminal offense related to the registration, licensing, and certificates of title when proof of compliance with the law is provided to the court on or before the court date. The bill otherwise retains the elements of and penalties for the offenses and infractions. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts and is identical to
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2018
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Feb 2019
Introduced Dec 14, 2018
Signed Feb 21, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 8, 2019
How they voted
37–0
Passed
Total votes 37
Feb 8, 2019
D
Democratic17
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
3
Committee
3
Feb 21, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 71 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 8, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (37-0)
senate
Feb 1, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
Jan 31, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2019
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Dec 14, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Dec 14, 2018
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101087D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Charniele Herring
DDemocratic
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