---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foreign market vehicles; titling and registration."
description: "Titling and registration of foreign market vehicles. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a negotiabletitle for a foreign market vehicle manufactured 25 or more years ago that does not comply with current federal safety requirements.Current law only allows for a negotiable title to be issued to suchvehicles manufactured prior to 1968."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1887"
citation: "Virginia HB 1887 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clinton L. Jenkins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41ec99ec-0baf-4fb5-bbb9-3d52bf32a1f4"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1887"
source_hash: "e139f652de6fdd4861a9048461c6174506fa6d2986d18cc115feeef8f8e6a927"
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 HB 1887 (2021) — Foreign market vehicles; titling and registration.

Titling and registration of foreign market vehicles. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a negotiabletitle for a foreign market vehicle manufactured 25 or more years ago that does not comply with current federal safety requirements.Current law only allows for a negotiable title to be issued to suchvehicles manufactured prior to 1968.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0137** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0137)
2. **HB1887ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1887ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102097D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1887)

## Votes

- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clinton L. Jenkins — primary (person)
- Don L. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102097D `introduction`
- **2021-01-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-12** Assigned Transportation sub: Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1887)
- **2021-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-21** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-27** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-26** Enrolled
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-27** Signed by President
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 20201
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (HB1887ER)
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 137 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41ec99ec-0baf-4fb5-bbb9-3d52bf32a1f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).