---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation network company partner; vehicle registration repeal."
description: "Removes the requirement that a transportation network company (TNC) partner register his personal vehicle for use as a TNC partner vehicle with the Department of Motor Vehicles. The bill allows the Department of State Police to recognize another state's annual motor vehicle safety inspection in lieu of a Virginia inspection and clarifies that a TNC partner can keep proof of inspection in or on the vehicle. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1366"
citation: "Virginia SB 1366 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Legislation", "Motor Vehicles", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen D. Newman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9287104c-45e3-4645-a297-5692018af520"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1366"
source_hash: "f2d8257754d703b0451f43cd3a33c601c51674fdc9cd6843b9f1b00584947774"
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 1366 (2017) — Transportation network company partner; vehicle registration repeal.

Removes the requirement that a transportation network company (TNC) partner register his personal vehicle for use as a TNC partner vehicle with the Department of Motor Vehicles. The bill allows the Department of State Police to recognize another state's annual motor vehicle safety inspection in lieu of a Virginia inspection and clarifies that a TNC partner can keep proof of inspection in or on the vehicle. The bill contains an emergency clause. 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 (CHAP0708)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0708)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1366ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1366ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103845D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1366)
4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17103845D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1366E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- House amendment agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Stephen D. Newman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103845D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-01-23** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-01-23** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1366E
- **2017-01-23** Printed as engrossed 17103845D-E
- **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** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-13** Emergency clause added
- **2017-02-13** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2017-02-13** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 708 (effective 3/24/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9287104c-45e3-4645-a297-5692018af520`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).