---
type: "Bill"
title: "Portable changeable message signs; certain vehicles authorized to be equipped with signs."
description: "Portable changeable message signs; certain vehicles. Authorizes certain towing, traffic management, and highway maintenance vehicles to be equipped with a portable changeable message sign that may be used without prior authorization from the Department of Transportation, provided that certain conditions are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2074"
citation: "Virginia HB 2074 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adele Y. McClure"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0492f10a-894f-49dc-a188-3b8cd911cd70"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2074"
source_hash: "d8c094e6662f508ff94f98c12e9eec29af65d419633e11422a4260c54436aaa1"
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 2074 (2025) — Portable changeable message signs; certain vehicles authorized to be equipped with signs.

Portable changeable message signs; certain vehicles. Authorizes certain towing, traffic management, and highway maintenance vehicles to be equipped with a portable changeable message sign that may be used without prior authorization from the Department of Transportation, provided that certain conditions are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1014986.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077442.PDF)
3. **Transportation Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1021132.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1050236.PDF)

## Votes

- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adele Y. McClure — primary (person)
- Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
- Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
- Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy P. Griffin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101649D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Assigned Trans sub: Highway Safety and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-16** Reported from Transportation with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16** Committee substitute printed 25105073D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-01-21** Transportation Substitute agreed to
- **2025-01-21** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-01-22** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-01-22** Passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-23** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2074)
- **2025-02-06** Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-10** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-11** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-17** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2074ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2074)
- **2025-02-17** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 526 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0492f10a-894f-49dc-a188-3b8cd911cd70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).