---
type: "Bill"
title: "All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition."
description: "All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or off-road motorcycle operated on a highway or sidewalk within such city. This bill is identical to HB 234."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 516"
citation: "Virginia SB 516 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angelia Williams Graves"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e824d00-71bc-4c27-943a-9c8293120907"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB516"
source_hash: "0b75bd1515b193e0e0fd75022d242a2f62fdcdefc1e2971d0ec7f70610ef3eae"
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 516 (2024) — All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition.

All-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or off-road motorcycle operated on a highway or sidewalk within such city. This bill is identical to HB 234.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0510** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0510)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101830D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB516)
3. **SB516ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB516ER)

## Votes

- VOTE: Passage (59-Y 37-N) — **58–37** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (10-Y 5-N) — **10–5** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 17-N) — **23–17** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (14-Y 8-N) — **14–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Angelia Williams Graves — primary (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101830D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB516)
- **2024-01-25** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-25** Reported from Transportation (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 17-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Reported from Transportation (14-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Passed House (59-Y 37-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** VOTE: Passage (59-Y 37-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB516ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB516ER)
- **2024-03-04** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 510 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e824d00-71bc-4c27-943a-9c8293120907`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).