---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle safety inspections; increases maximum charge from $16 to $20, $.70 transmitted to VSP."
description: "Increases the maximum charge for a state safety inspection for a motor vehicle from $16 to $20 and increases the amount transmitted to the Department of State Police from $0.50 to $0.70."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2514"
citation: "Virginia HB 2514 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Police", "State"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timothy D. Hugo"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b614ab6-2c67-4c17-b16a-d051c1275b71"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2514"
source_hash: "335acac1398214136f224439d381ed289356d3a6d33a15e31d1f8d708079dae5"
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 2514 (2019) — Motor vehicle safety inspections; increases maximum charge from $16 to $20, $.70 transmitted to VSP.

Increases the maximum charge for a state safety inspection for a motor vehicle from $16 to $20 and increases the amount transmitted to the Department of State Police from $0.50 to $0.70.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0307)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0307)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2514ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2514ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101253D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2514)
4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2514ASE)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment — **25–15** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **7–6** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation — **14–6** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **62–37** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed House — **66–30** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and defeated by House — **48–48** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Timothy D. Hugo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101253D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and defeated by House (48-Y 48-N 1-A) `failure`
- **2019-02-05** Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by House
- **2019-02-05** Passed by temporarily
- **2019-02-05** Passed House (66-Y 30-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Reading of amendment waived
- **2019-02-18** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-02-18** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-19** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Senate amendment agreed to by House (62-Y 37-N)
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 307 (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/3b614ab6-2c67-4c17-b16a-d051c1275b71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).