---
type: "Bill"
title: "Second highways; regulating of parking in Albemarle County."
description: "Adds Albemarle County to the list of counties that may, by ordinance, regulate parking on secondary highways. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 679"
citation: "Virginia SB 679 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbf5c289-1a22-43b4-9e55-a36befe66eac"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB679"
source_hash: "ef01f899412c0375b1d7e18433516b4b6ba5b0332ec8abd78e0016ee34db12ec"
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 679 (2018) — Second highways; regulating of parking in Albemarle County.

Adds Albemarle County to the list of counties that may, by ordinance, regulate parking on secondary highways. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB679ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB679ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101439D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB679)

## Votes

- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101439D `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 90 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbf5c289-1a22-43b4-9e55-a36befe66eac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).