---
type: "Bill"
title: "Towing; certain large vehicles, civil penalty."
description: "Towing; civil penalty. Requires a towing and recovery operator to include the contact information of the Division of Consumer Counsel within the Office of the Attorney General on any invoice charging $10,000 or more for towing and recovery services rendered pursuant to a lawful request for towing by a law-enforcement officer for the towing and recovery of a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of greater than 26,000 pounds. The bill subjects towing and recovery operators in violation of the bill's provisions to a civil penalty of $1,000 per violation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 705"
citation: "Virginia SB 705 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David W. Marsden"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d018dd94-368c-4c1b-b788-6b31aa25a4ca"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB705"
source_hash: "5df8226bec152c3ead9417557b0361a35a5481fc992c82e0549419b4cc25a63d"
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 705 (2022) — Towing; certain large vehicles, civil penalty.

Towing; civil penalty. Requires a towing and recovery operator to include the contact information of the Division of Consumer Counsel within the Office of the Attorney General on any invoice charging $10,000 or more for towing and recovery services rendered pursuant to a lawful request for towing by a law-enforcement officer for the towing and recovery of a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of greater than 26,000 pounds. The bill subjects towing and recovery operators in violation of the bill's provisions to a civil penalty of $1,000 per violation.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0567** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0567)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22105882D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB705S1)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 22103299D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB705)
4. **SB705ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB705ER)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (69-Y 31-N) — **68–31** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David W. Marsden — primary (person)
- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** Presented and ordered printed 22103299D `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB705)
- **2022-02-03** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Committee substitute printed 22105882D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB705S1)
- **2022-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-08** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-02-08** Committee substitute agreed to 22105882D-S1
- **2022-02-08** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB705S1
- **2022-02-09** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-09** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-09** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 Highway Safety and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-24** Reported from Transportation (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed House (69-Y 31-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** VOTE: Passage (69-Y 31-N)
- **2022-03-04** Enrolled
- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB705ER)
- **2022-03-04** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 567 (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/d018dd94-368c-4c1b-b788-6b31aa25a4ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).