---
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: "SB 871"
citation: "Virginia SB 871 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Surovell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-03"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/990c85a6-b173-42d1-9580-1f0365ba87c5"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB871"
source_hash: "b3fdb71e09d626588664910f6b79b7c18c78d887dd154139ec981ea404c8e58c"
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 871 (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. **CHAP0311** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0311)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101464D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB871)
3. **Printed as engrossed 23101464D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB871E)
4. **SB871ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB871ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Transportation with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Surovell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101464D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-03** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB871)
- **2023-01-19** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-19** Reported from Transportation with amendments (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** Reading of amendments waived
- **2023-01-24** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB871E
- **2023-01-24** Printed as engrossed 23101464D-E
- **2023-01-25** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB871E)
- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB871ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB871ER)
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 311 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0311)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/990c85a6-b173-42d1-9580-1f0365ba87c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).