---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tolling; prohibited in Northern Virginia."
description: "Prohibits the imposition and collection of tolls on any primary highway that is wholly located in Planning District 8 and that was previously classified as a secondary highway and is between 30 and 35 miles in length without prior approval by the General Assembly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2527"
citation: "Virginia HB 2527 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways", "Bridges and Ferries", "Northern Virginia"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Timothy D. Hugo"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb29850d-37ba-4103-91ad-bdb0d5c5862f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2527"
source_hash: "ec0f9ad57e69bc8264bc3eb223c356cb9be657507516352e766249e7e5f45868"
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 2527 (2019) — Tolling; prohibited in Northern Virginia.

Prohibits the imposition and collection of tolls on any primary highway that is wholly located in Planning District 8 and that was previously classified as a secondary highway and is between 30 and 35 miles in length without prior approval by the General Assembly.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0548)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0548)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2527AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2527)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2527ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2527ER)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102826D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2527)
6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19102826D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2527E)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **88–9** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with amendments — **21–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Timothy D. Hugo — primary (person)
- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102826D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House as amended HB2527E
- **2019-02-01** Printed as engrossed 19102826D-E
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House (88-Y 9-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 548 (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/bb29850d-37ba-4103-91ad-bdb0d5c5862f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).