---
type: "Bill"
title: "Overweight permits; hauling Virginia-grown farm produce, validity."
description: "Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue overweight permits that are valid statewide for vehicles hauling Virginia-grown farm produce from the point of origin to the first place of delivery. Under current law, such permits are valid only in Accomack and Northampton Counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1519"
citation: "Virginia HB 1519 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Animal Care and Food", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry D. Knight"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-12-22"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0849235-a60d-4577-95e9-2d943f2cdabf"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1519"
source_hash: "ca9b8a38be3a56858049633b47214cc163de78d097779c5602f63548a656c5d8"
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 HB 1519 (2017) — Overweight permits; hauling Virginia-grown farm produce, validity.

Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue overweight permits that are valid statewide for vehicles hauling Virginia-grown farm produce from the point of origin to the first place of delivery. Under current law, such permits are valid only in Accomack and Northampton Counties.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0693)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1519ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1519ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17105046D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1519H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101088D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1519)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
- Les R. Adams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-22** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101088D `introduction`
- **2016-12-22** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17105046D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1519H1
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0849235-a60d-4577-95e9-2d943f2cdabf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).