---
type: "Bill"
title: "School buses; commercial use."
description: "School buses; commercial use. Permits the school board of any school division to enter into agreements with any third-party logistics company to allow for the use of the school buses of such school division by such third-party logistics company but provides that such third-party logistics company shall not use the school buses to provide transportation of passengers for compensation or for residential delivery of products for compensation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 774"
citation: "Virginia SB 774 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Siobhan S. Dunnavant"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47490cc1-cd07-450a-a8dd-5b00cc4ba2bf"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB774"
source_hash: "78cd680f2e954c3c4fc8e8325518a9c1da46198cf04c54646d678b632379ae0c"
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 774 (2022) — School buses; commercial use.

School buses; commercial use. Permits the school board of any school division to enter into agreements with any third-party logistics company to allow for the use of the school buses of such school division by such third-party logistics company but provides that such third-party logistics company shall not use the school buses to provide transportation of passengers for compensation or for residential delivery of products for compensation.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0241** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0241)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22106222D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB774S1)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 22105504D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB774)
4. **SB774ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB774ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N) — **91–7** (pass) · lower
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** Unanimous consent to introduce
- **2022-01-31** Presented and ordered printed 22105504D `introduction`
- **2022-01-31** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-10** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-10** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-10** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Committee substitute printed 22106222D-S1 `substitution`
- **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 22106222D-S1
- **2022-02-14** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB774S1
- **2022-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-14** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (SB774S1)
- **2022-03-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Passed by for the day
- **2022-03-04** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Amendment by Delegate Davis agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-04** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2022-03-04** Passed House with amendment (92-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N)
- **2022-03-08** House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled
- **2022-03-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB774ER)
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-10** Signed by Speaker
- **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
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 241 (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/47490cc1-cd07-450a-a8dd-5b00cc4ba2bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).