---
type: "Bill"
title: "Driving after forfeiture of license; guilty of certain offenses."
description: "Driving after forfeiture of license. Specifiesthat a person is guilty of an offense of driving or operating a motorvehicle (i) after his driver's license has been revoked for certainoffenses; (ii) in violation of the terms of a restricted license; (iii) without an ignition interlock system if one is required; or(iv) if the person's license had been restricted, suspended, or revokedfor certain driving under the influence offenses, with a blood alcoholcontent of 0.02 percent or more, only if such person was drivingor operating the motor vehicle on a highway, as defined in Title46.2, Motor Vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 798"
citation: "Virginia SB 798 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph D. Morrissey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83464fc3-f9da-4fa9-bbe5-7fd2fee6eb53"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB798"
source_hash: "e9c8994d30c93578d1076e21ddb2f0d2af09ef419895e0b55edbcb30d52ebc55"
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 798 (2020) — Driving after forfeiture of license; guilty of certain offenses.

Driving after forfeiture of license. Specifiesthat a person is guilty of an offense of driving or operating a motorvehicle (i) after his driver's license has been revoked for certainoffenses; (ii) in violation of the terms of a restricted license; (iii) without an ignition interlock system if one is required; or(iv) if the person's license had been restricted, suspended, or revokedfor certain driving under the influence offenses, with a blood alcoholcontent of 0.02 percent or more, only if such person was drivingor operating the motor vehicle on a highway, as defined in Title46.2, Motor Vehicles.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1019)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1019)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB798ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB798ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB798)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB798)

## Votes

- Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 3-N) — **11–3** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) — **36–4** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N) — **62–36** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N) — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joseph D. Morrissey — primary (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100954D `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB798)
- **2020-02-10** Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- **2020-03-02** Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (63-Y 36-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** VOTE: Passage (63-Y 36-N)
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled
- **2020-03-12** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB798ER)
- **2020-03-17** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 17, 2020
- **2020-03-17** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 1019 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83464fc3-f9da-4fa9-bbe5-7fd2fee6eb53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).