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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicle accident; increases damage threshold."
+description: "Report of motor vehicle accident; damage threshold. Increases from $1,500 to $3,000 the property damage threshold at which law enforcement is required to forward a written report of a motor vehicle accident to the Department of Motor Vehicles."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2256"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2256 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michelle Lopes Maldonado"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-01-07"
+last_action: "2025-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04e02c95-3a99-4db5-8c05-862707762b23"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2256"
+source_hash: "12da4a888954d2bba4f6509aee066efd12db195608808303c5a474a95db402ad"
+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 2256 (2025) — Motor vehicle accident; increases damage threshold.
+
+Report of motor vehicle accident; damage threshold. Increases from $1,500 to $3,000 the property damage threshold at which law enforcement is required to forward a written report of a motor vehicle accident to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015735.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072935.PDF)
+3. **Courts of Justice Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1054981.PDF)
+4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036738.PDF)
+5. **HTRAN Sub: Highway Safety and Policy Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1033897.HTML)
+6. **Transportation Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036295.HTML)
+7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068636.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 6-N) — **9–6** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee substitute reconsidered (39-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) — **24–15** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michelle Lopes Maldonado — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101543D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23** Assigned Trans sub: Highway Safety and Policy `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-30** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-03** Transportation Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended
+- **2025-02-03** Printed as engrossed 25101543D-E
+- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2256)
+- **2025-02-17** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-17** Committee substitute printed 25106974D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2025-02-18** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-18** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-19** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2025-02-19** Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-02-19** Committee substitute reconsidered (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-19** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-20** Courts of Justice Substitute rejected
+- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (24-Y 15-N) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2256ER) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2256)
+- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 255 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04e02c95-3a99-4db5-8c05-862707762b23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+