---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certification of driver education courses; requirements."
description: "Provides that any licensed driver training school is authorized to provide the 90-minute parent/student driver education component in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) that is currently required in Planning District 8 public schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1705"
citation: "Virginia HB 1705 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Motor Vehicles", "Northern Virginia"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas A. \"Tag\" Greason"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-06"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfb2e612-432a-4db0-9f67-22ee3d38f4b2"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1705"
source_hash: "f8c450a10aeeed8d8e83496a5d000b6f3ccb807c07fcec26db3251e7de187391"
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 1705 (2017) — Certification of driver education courses; requirements.

Provides that any licensed driver training school is authorized to provide the 90-minute parent/student driver education component in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) that is currently required in Planning District 8 public schools.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0144)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0144)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1705ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1705ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103035D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1705)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103035D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1705E)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103035D `introduction`
- **2017-01-06** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-01-23** Engrossed by House as amended HB1705E
- **2017-01-23** Printed as engrossed 17103035D-E
- **2017-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-25** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 144 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfb2e612-432a-4db0-9f67-22ee3d38f4b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).