---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle dealers; franchise agreements, sale or lease of new motor vehicles."
description: "Motor vehicle dealers; franchise agreements, sale or lease of new motor vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1469"
citation: "Virginia HB 1469 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leftwich"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-12-29"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/270247eb-76a4-435c-a31b-f8b3682c7c4b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1469"
source_hash: "28c55a1f5d796afac3634f87222ade364080044c3e2220243fd1320340d500ff"
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 1469 (2023) — Motor vehicle dealers; franchise agreements, sale or lease of new motor vehicles.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0310** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0310)
2. **HB1469E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1469E)
3. **HB1469ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1469ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101626D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1469)

## Votes

- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leftwich — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-29** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101626D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-29** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB1469)
- **2023-01-17** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-19** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Engrossed by House as amended HB1469E
- **2023-01-24** Printed as engrossed 23101626D-E
- **2023-01-24** Engrossed bill reprinted 23101626D-E
- **2023-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (HB1469E)
- **2023-02-02** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-06** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-14** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1469ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1469ER)
- **2023-02-14** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 310 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0310)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/270247eb-76a4-435c-a31b-f8b3682c7c4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).