---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle safety inspection; Superintendent shall provide information upon written request."
description: "Authorizes the Superintendent of State Police to provide, upon request, verification of the inspection status of a vehicle and to charge a reasonable fee for providing such information. Fees shall not be charged to government or other public entities. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2269"
citation: "Virginia HB 2269 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronald A. Villanueva"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06c3156a-c495-4346-a347-1732decbfd27"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2269"
source_hash: "c4c353beb8e94df5bd931d143dba7629336ac562cbc5cfbfac5e8033318b10c6"
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 2269 (2017) — Motor vehicle safety inspection; Superintendent shall provide information upon written request.

Authorizes the Superintendent of State Police to provide, upon request, verification of the inspection status of a vehicle and to charge a reasonable fee for providing such information. Fees shall not be charged to government or other public entities. 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 (CHAP0322)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0322)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2269ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2269ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103970D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2269)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ronald A. Villanueva — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103970D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 322 (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/06c3156a-c495-4346-a347-1732decbfd27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).