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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Vehicle registration; dismissal of summons for expiration, proof of compliance."
+description: "Authorizes courts to dismiss a summons issued for expiration of vehicle registration if the defendant provides to the court proof of compliance with the law on or before the court date. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1712"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1712 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charniele L. Herring"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-12-14"
+last_action: "2019-02-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/758daca4-973a-4a94-9f4f-1305b3e8c171"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1712"
+source_hash: "9020362442646fc4b746f683ccf79d1a91346cf8bbcd384c91d9045448be38c5"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1712 (2019) — Vehicle registration; dismissal of summons for expiration, proof of compliance.
+
+Authorizes courts to dismiss a summons issued for expiration of vehicle registration if the defendant provides to the court proof of compliance with the law on or before the court date. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0014)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0014)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1712ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1712ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101090D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1712)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charniele L. Herring — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-12-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101090D `introduction`
+- **2018-12-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-10** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-04** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-05** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-05** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-05** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-06** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 6, 2019
+- **2019-02-06** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 13, 2019
+- **2019-02-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 14 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/758daca4-973a-4a94-9f4f-1305b3e8c171`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+