Motor vehicle dealers; definitions.
Summary
Provides that offering to sell, selling, displaying, or permitting the display for sale of five or more vehicles within any 12 consecutive months creates a rebuttable presumption that a person is a motor vehicle dealer. Current law defines such person as a motor vehicle dealer. The bill provides for new trailers to be treated similarly to new motor vehicles in various provisions. The bill adds manufacturers or distributors selling new motor vehicles at wholesale to their franchised dealer or used motor vehicles to a licensed dealer, as well as persons dealing fire-fighting vehicles and ambulances, to a list of parties exempted from the definition of motor vehicle dealer.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Jan 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Feb 2019
Introduced Jan 9, 2019
Signed Feb 27, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 8, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Feb 8, 2019
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Amendments
1
Feb 27, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 160 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 8, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Jan 31, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Transportation
upper
Jan 30, 2019
Lower · Passed
Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 30, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2019
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB2487E
lower
Jan 29, 2019
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Jan 18, 2019
Committee
Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3
lower
Jan 9, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Transportation
lower
Jan 9, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103001D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
T. Scott Garrett
RRepublican
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