---
type: "Bill"
title: "Auto recyclers; database search."
description: "Auto recyclers; database search. Clarifies the databases to be searched by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon notification by an auto recycler that he possesses a motor vehicle to be demolished but does not possess a certificate of title, salvage certificate, or nonrepairable certificate for such motor vehicle. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to SB 545."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1112"
citation: "Virginia HB 1112 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Wyatt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbb4bcd6-7c22-4780-8274-b0aa21386c08"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1112"
source_hash: "4ea3a005f49f1c5b8de58ff14613e5a81a3f2314871c819f8add551f99f3aa3a"
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 1112 (2024) — Auto recyclers; database search.

Auto recyclers; database search. Clarifies the databases to be searched by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon notification by an auto recycler that he possesses a motor vehicle to be demolished but does not possess a certificate of title, salvage certificate, or nonrepairable certificate for such motor vehicle. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025, and is identical to SB 545.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0216** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0216)
2. **HB1112ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1112ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101322D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1112)
4. **Printed as engrossed 24101322D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1112E)

## Votes

- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (12-Y 0-N) — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Scott A. Wyatt — primary (person)
- Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101322D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Assigned Transportation sub: Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (HB1112)
- **2024-02-05** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-08** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-12** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-12** Engrossed by House as amended HB1112E
- **2024-02-12** Printed as engrossed 24101322D-E
- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Impact statement from DPB (HB1112E)
- **2024-02-22** Reported from Transportation (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-01** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1112ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (HB1112ER)
- **2024-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 216 (effective 7/1/25) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0216)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbb4bcd6-7c22-4780-8274-b0aa21386c08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).