---
type: "Bill"
title: "Auto recyclers; database search."
description: "Auto recyclers; database search. Clarifies the databases to be searched by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon notification by an auto recycler that he possesses a motor vehicle to be demolished but does not possess a certificate of title, salvage certificate, or nonrepairable certificate for such motor vehicle. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to HB 1112."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 545"
citation: "Virginia SB 545 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc696d07-a19b-4be9-9b91-e9825ed1af01"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB545"
source_hash: "7d4cb06aae6edd2d2a624b986515f650065cb6f6993742d7e649a0ef6ff3da8f"
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 545 (2024) — Auto recyclers; database search.

Auto recyclers; database search. Clarifies the databases to be searched by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon notification by an auto recycler that he possesses a motor vehicle to be demolished but does not possess a certificate of title, salvage certificate, or nonrepairable certificate for such motor vehicle. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to HB 1112.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0250** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0250)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105049D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB545)
3. **Printed as engrossed 24105049D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB545E)
4. **SB545ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB545ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
- T. Travis Hackworth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105049D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-18** Reported from Transportation with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-23** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** Reading of amendment waived
- **2024-01-23** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-23** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB545E
- **2024-01-23** Printed as engrossed 24105049D-E
- **2024-01-24** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-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`
- **2024-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (SB545E)
- **2024-02-22** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB545ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Impact statement from DPB (SB545ER)
- **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`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 250 (effective 7/1/25) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0250)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc696d07-a19b-4be9-9b91-e9825ed1af01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).