---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certificate of title; vehicle used as a taxicab."
description: "Certificate of title; vehicle used as a taxicab."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1768"
citation: "Virginia HB 1768 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David E. Yancey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-12-25"
last_action: "2019-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/459d8b87-ff2e-46d9-bb72-5c0139cbf73a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1768"
source_hash: "6785613c99415f9846fa35190d5dccfc4310255407b4bec3671a5a9de23d3f6f"
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 1768 (2019) — Certificate of title; vehicle used as a taxicab.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0072)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0072)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1768ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1768ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101411D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1768)

## Votes

- Reported from Transportation — **20–2** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **77–19** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David E. Yancey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-25** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101411D `introduction`
- **2018-12-25** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House (77-Y 19-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 72 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/459d8b87-ff2e-46d9-bb72-5c0139cbf73a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).