---
type: "Bill"
title: "Driving on a suspended or revoked license; period of suspension."
description: "Provides that any driver's license suspension imposed upon a person for the failure to pay court-ordered fines and costs shall run concurrently with any other period of license suspension, revocation, or forfeiture imposed upon such person. The bill also provides that in the event that a person whose license has been suspended for the failure to pay court-ordered fines and costs is convicted of driving on a suspended or revoked license, the additional period of license suspension imposed as a result of that conviction runs concurrently with the underlying suspension for the failure to pay court-ordered fines and costs. Under current law, such additional suspension period does not commence until the expiration of the previous suspension or revocation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2467"
citation: "Virginia HB 2467 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51be87dd-595c-4c8c-9590-b3bd78d32525"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2467"
source_hash: "12ab1af96b7426e40bece946e80610e3a076810a9d55e762b7d7b18ab25365fd"
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 2467 (2017) — Driving on a suspended or revoked license; period of suspension.

Provides that any driver's license suspension imposed upon a person for the failure to pay court-ordered fines and costs shall run concurrently with any other period of license suspension, revocation, or forfeiture imposed upon such person. The bill also provides that in the event that a person whose license has been suspended for the failure to pay court-ordered fines and costs is convicted of driving on a suspended or revoked license, the additional period of license suspension imposed as a result of that conviction runs concurrently with the underlying suspension for the failure to pay court-ordered fines and costs. Under current law, such additional suspension period does not commence until the expiration of the previous suspension or revocation.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0700)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0700)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2467ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2467ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103953D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2467)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate insisted on amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Conference report agreed to by House — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Rereferred from Transportation — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment rejected by House — **0–99** (fail) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** Presented and ordered printed 17103953D `introduction`
- **2017-01-20** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Rereferred to Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-15** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-15** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-17** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-17** Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 99-N)
- **2017-02-21** Senate requested conference committee
- **2017-02-22** House acceded to request
- **2017-02-23** Conferees appointed by House
- **2017-02-23** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2017-02-24** Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 0-N)
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 700 (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/51be87dd-595c-4c8c-9590-b3bd78d32525`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).