---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempted vehicles; insurance."
description: "Exempted vehicles; insurance. Requires motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers exempted from the registration requirement to be covered by motor vehicle insurance; a general liability policy; or an umbrella or excess insurance policy. The bill requires the owner of any such motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer to provide proof of insurance within 30 days when requested by a law-enforcement officer and provides that failure to do so is punishable as a traffic infraction by a fine of $600 to be paid into the Uninsured Motorists Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 733"
citation: "Virginia SB 733 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank M. Ruff, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae2017d5-3775-4c82-ae76-f1b7034363a9"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB733"
source_hash: "64168a029e1feb39814585d8e721234c09c32528153addff4b70d78a5ba3d6bc"
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 SB 733 (2022) — Exempted vehicles; insurance.

Exempted vehicles; insurance. Requires motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers exempted from the registration requirement to be covered by motor vehicle insurance; a general liability policy; or an umbrella or excess insurance policy. The bill requires the owner of any such motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer to provide proof of insurance within 30 days when requested by a law-enforcement officer and provides that failure to do so is punishable as a traffic infraction by a fine of $600 to be paid into the Uninsured Motorists Fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0736** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0736)
2. **Presented and ordered printed 22104317D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB733)
3. **SB733ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB733ER)
4. **SB733ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB733ER2)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** Presented and ordered printed 22104317D `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB733)
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-09** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-09** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-09** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-01** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-04** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled
- **2022-03-09** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-10** Signed by President
- **2022-03-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB733ER)
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- **2022-04-27** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** Governor's recommendation adopted
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled bill text (SB733ER2)
- **2022-04-27** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Enacted, Chapter 736 (effective 7/1/22) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae2017d5-3775-4c82-ae76-f1b7034363a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).