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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Electronic credentials; discretionary fee, up to $10 per year, assessed by DMV for each individual."
+description: "Electronic credentials; fee. Makes discretionary the amount of the fee, up to $10 per year, assessed by the Department of Motor Vehicles for each individual issued electronic credentials or granted access to an electronic credential. Under current law, the fee is fixed at $10 per year. The bill authorizes the Department to issue electronic registration cards to individuals who hold a valid physical registration card and clarifies when a physical registration card is required."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 34"
+citation: "Virginia SB 34 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David W. Marsden"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-12-23"
+last_action: "2022-04-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b93b90b-4413-4a64-9a6c-a7aa47c7d8fb"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB34"
+source_hash: "4b29f5fbff7fe4a7788717720ae12ee123209f26f29af323b5b9b33d385fa508"
+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 SB 34 (2022) — Electronic credentials; discretionary fee, up to $10 per year, assessed by DMV for each individual.
+
+Electronic credentials; fee. Makes discretionary the amount of the fee, up to $10 per year, assessed by the Department of Motor Vehicles for each individual issued electronic credentials or granted access to an electronic credential. Under current law, the fee is fixed at $10 per year. The bill authorizes the Department to issue electronic registration cards to individuals who hold a valid physical registration card and clarifies when a physical registration card is required.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0183** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0183)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 22104817D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB34S1)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103302D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB34)
+4. **SB34ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB34ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David W. Marsden — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-12-23** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103302D `introduction`
+- **2021-12-23** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-20** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2022-01-20** Committee substitute printed 22104817D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2022-01-20** Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-01-25** Passed by for the day
+- **2022-01-26** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2022-01-26** Committee substitute agreed to 22104817D-S1
+- **2022-01-26** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB34S1
+- **2022-01-27** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB34S1)
+- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-22** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-01** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB34ER)
+- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
+- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-07** Approved by Governor-Chapter 183 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b93b90b-4413-4a64-9a6c-a7aa47c7d8fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+