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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicle dealers; use of buyer's order for leased motor vehicles."
+description: "Motor vehicle dealers; buyer's order; leased motor vehicles. Clarifies the use of buyer's orders for leased vehicles and provides that such forms may be separate from the buyer's order forms used for a sale of a motor vehicle."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2659"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2659 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Paul V. Milde"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-01-15"
+last_action: "2025-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d7ae4d3-9cc5-46de-acd9-965204cee9ab"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2659"
+source_hash: "2053cd4967d0fef66bebcd46e022ee62bff836c0f78d958db9404c4f3c406efd"
+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 2659 (2025) — Motor vehicle dealers; use of buyer's order for leased motor vehicles.
+
+Motor vehicle dealers; buyer's order; leased motor vehicles. Clarifies the use of buyer's orders for leased vehicles and provides that such forms may be separate from the buyer's order forms used for a sale of a motor vehicle.
+
+## 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/1020639.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071246.PDF)
+3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1037099.PDF)
+4. **HTRAN Sub: Department of Motor Vehicles Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1031248.HTML)
+5. **Transportation Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036190.HTML)
+6. **Transportation Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052662.PDF)
+7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1064848.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) — **20–2** (pass) · lower
+- Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Paul V. Milde — primary (person)
+- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-15** Presented and ordered printed 25101637D `introduction`
+- **2025-01-15** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23** Assigned Trans sub: Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-30** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2659)
+- **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 25101637D-E
+- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2659)
+- **2025-02-13** Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Committee substitute printed 25107398D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
+- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2025-02-18** Transportation Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) `substitution`
+- **2025-03-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2659)
+- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2659ER) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2659)
+- **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`
+- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 99 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d7ae4d3-9cc5-46de-acd9-965204cee9ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+