---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; certain exemptions."
description: "Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; exemptions. Exempts the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority from certain requirements, procurement and technology procedures, fees, and charges and expands certain existing exemptions to which it is already entitled."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 141"
citation: "Virginia HB 141 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David A. Reid"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2026-01-05"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61043acf-220c-4041-84b5-f74f30414ab0"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB141"
source_hash: "58fdb955ba6071aeb6528aaafa867f4ee0bcb78b6f3a42f4287ad68b6cb02d5a"
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 141 (2026) — Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; certain exemptions.

Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; exemptions. Exempts the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority from certain requirements, procurement and technology procedures, fees, and charges and expands certain existing exemptions to which it is already entitled.

## 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/1082575.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216166.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1103032.PDF)
4. **Transportation Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1102000.HTML)
5. **Transportation Infrastructure and Funding Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1098087.HTML)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1199682.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Transportation — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **97–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David A. Reid — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103364D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Assigned HTRAN sub: Transportation Infrastructure and Funding `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-27** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)
- **2026-01-29** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-03** committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-02-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB141)
- **2026-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 1-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2026-02-04** Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Reported from Transportation and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-03** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-03** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-11** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB141ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB141)
- **2026-03-11** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 75 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0075)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61043acf-220c-4041-84b5-f74f30414ab0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).