---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle license fees and taxes, local; collection by counties and adjoining towns."
description: "Vehicle license fees and taxes, local; collection by counties and adjoining towns."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1211"
citation: "Virginia SB 1211 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Motor Vehicles", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer T. Wexton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0b8f3c1-4b0c-4384-97c6-1aa5cae6bb96"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1211"
source_hash: "e0c495dbc9dbdd0e6637549b9314c8c8b441eda8aabec49bcf3cd785b372e9fe"
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 SB 1211 (2017) — Vehicle license fees and taxes, local; collection by counties and adjoining towns.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0119)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0119)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1211ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1211ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102381D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1211)

## Votes

- Reported from Transportation — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jennifer T. Wexton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102381D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-13** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-14** Enrolled
- **2017-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-15** Signed by President
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
- **2017-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
- **2017-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 119 (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/f0b8f3c1-4b0c-4384-97c6-1aa5cae6bb96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).