---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highway use fee; reimbursement."
description: "Highway use fee; reimbursement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2254"
citation: "Virginia HB 2254 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sickles"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b53ec50-f095-42a1-bb04-3c1e12662107"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2254"
source_hash: "67ab62286f5ed25996a145aefeddb7145ec26db9c8b8392dc2881504a69de6ae"
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 2254 (2023) — Highway use fee; reimbursement.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0537** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0537)
2. **HB2254ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2254ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100711D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2254)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (19-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sickles — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100711D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-19** Reported from Transportation (19-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-25** Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-25** VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB2254)
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-20** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2254ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB2254ER)
- **2023-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 537 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b53ec50-f095-42a1-bb04-3c1e12662107`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).