---
type: "Bill"
title: "Safety inspections; appointments."
description: "Allows any motor vehicle inspection station to accept appointments for safety inspections in addition to accepting vehicles on a first-come, first-served basis, so long as at least one lane is reserved for the sole purpose of first-come, first-served safety inspections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1507"
citation: "Virginia SB 1507 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John A. Cosgrove, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5864cc9-1b24-4787-b6a5-6e72add37c3d"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1507"
source_hash: "b992b0f2566d1bef9bcd583c62b2e396eee2101dc86c01b58ca78cc9b55d05db"
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 1507 (2017) — Safety inspections; appointments.

Allows any motor vehicle inspection station to accept appointments for safety inspections in addition to accepting vehicles on a first-come, first-served basis, so long as at least one lane is reserved for the sole purpose of first-come, first-served safety inspections.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0525)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0525)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 17105558D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1507H1)
3. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1507ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1507ER)
4. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103268D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1507)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **31–9** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **9–4** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- House substitute agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **32–8** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — primary (person)
- Bill R. DeSteph, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Presented and ordered printed 17103268D `introduction`
- **2017-01-18** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 17105558D-H1
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1507H1
- **2017-02-20** Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-21** Title replaced 17105558D-H1
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 525 (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/c5864cc9-1b24-4787-b6a5-6e72add37c3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).