---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highway use fee, mileage-based user fee program; program clarifications."
description: "Highway use fee, mileage-based user fee program; program clarifications developed by the working group. Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to deny the registration or registration renewal of a participant in the mileage-based user fee program who has failed to pay the mileage-based user fee. The bill protects certain data collected for the mileage-based user fee program from disclosure. The bill directs the Commissioner to establish a process for issuing prorated refunds of mileage-based user fees to certain participants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 612"
citation: "Virginia SB 612 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer B. Boysko"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/882157d1-664c-4645-91b5-04d532760508"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB612"
source_hash: "87afc01f4fa787e77b6ac16681ed7e14fade42785f32336d146ab5661edba196"
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 612 (2022) — Highway use fee, mileage-based user fee program; program clarifications.

Highway use fee, mileage-based user fee program; program clarifications developed by the working group. Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to deny the registration or registration renewal of a participant in the mileage-based user fee program who has failed to pay the mileage-based user fee. The bill protects certain data collected for the mileage-based user fee program from disclosure. The bill directs the Commissioner to establish a process for issuing prorated refunds of mileage-based user fees to certain participants.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0446** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0446)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22106003D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB612S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104372D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB612)
4. **SB612ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB612ER)
5. **SB612ES1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB612ES1)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) — **22–18** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (29-Y 10-N) — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (75-Y 23-N) — **75–22** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with substitute (12-Y 3-N) — **12–3** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104372D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB612)
- **2022-02-03** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Transportation with substitute (12-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Committee substitute printed 22106003D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-03** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB612S1)
- **2022-02-10** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-14** Committee substitute agreed to 22106003D-S1
- **2022-02-14** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-02-14** Amendment by Senator Boysko agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB612ES1
- **2022-02-14** Printed as engrossed 22106003D-ES1
- **2022-02-15** Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 Transportation Infrastructure and Funding `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB612ES1)
- **2022-03-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-03-08** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2022-03-08** Passed House with amendment (75-Y 23-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** VOTE: Passage (75-Y 23-N)
- **2022-03-09** House amendment agreed to by Senate (29-Y 10-N)
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB612ER)
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 446 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/882157d1-664c-4645-91b5-04d532760508`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).