---
type: "Bill"
title: "Parking ordinances; enforcement by locality with a population of at least 40,000."
description: "Authorizes any county or town with a population of at least 40,000 to provide by ordinance that law-enforcement officers, other uniformed employees of the locality, and uniformed personnel under contract with the locality may issue a summons or parking ticket for a violation of the locality's ordinances or regulations regarding the parking, stopping, or standing of vehicles. Current law creates such authority for any city with a population of at least 40,000. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1818"
citation: "Virginia HB 1818 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karrie K. Delaney"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2019-01-01"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5089dbc9-a024-434a-a658-f6c1db701239"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1818"
source_hash: "74821f601b9f3fb923e1457dcc509ede7468a0ae97144262a5b2a7862de4da73"
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 1818 (2019) — Parking ordinances; enforcement by locality with a population of at least 40,000.

Authorizes any county or town with a population of at least 40,000 to provide by ordinance that law-enforcement officers, other uniformed employees of the locality, and uniformed personnel under contract with the locality may issue a summons or parking ticket for a violation of the locality's ordinances or regulations regarding the parking, stopping, or standing of vehicles. Current law creates such authority for any city with a population of at least 40,000. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0459)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1818ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1818ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101337D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1818)
4. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106541D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1818S1)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Senate substitute rejected by House 19106541-S1 — **2–93** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **12–1** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute — **36–4** (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House — **83–16** (pass) · lower
- Senate insisted on substitute — **36–3** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **87–12** (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **24–16** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-01** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101337D `introduction`
- **2019-01-01** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-30** Read third time and passed House (87-Y 12-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-31** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-02-11** Committee substitute agreed to 19106541-S1
- **2019-02-11** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1818S1
- **2019-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Senate substitute rejected by House 19106541-S1 (2-Y 93-N)
- **2019-02-15** Senate requested conference committee
- **2019-02-18** House acceded to request
- **2019-02-18** Conferees appointed by House
- **2019-02-19** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2019-02-21** Amended by conference committee
- **2019-02-21** Conference report agreed to by House (83-Y 16-N)
- **2019-03-07** Enrolled
- **2019-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-03-09** Signed by President
- **2019-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- **2019-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 459 (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/5089dbc9-a024-434a-a658-f6c1db701239`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).