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Bill	Overweight permits; hauling Virginia-grown farm produce, validity.	Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue overweight permits that are valid statewide for vehicles hauling Virginia-grown farm produce from the point of origin to the first place of delivery. Under current law, such permits are valid only in Accomack and Northampton Counties.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1519	Virginia HB 1519 (2017)	bill	Agriculture Animal Care and Food Motor Vehicles	enacted	Barry D. Knight	4	17	8	2016-12-22	2017-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/b0849235-a60d-4577-95e9-2d943f2cdabf	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1519	ca9b8a38be3a56858049633b47214cc163de78d097779c5602f63548a656c5d8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1519 (2017) — Overweight permits; hauling Virginia-grown farm produce, validity.

Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue overweight permits that are valid statewide for vehicles hauling Virginia-grown farm produce from the point of origin to the first place of delivery. Under current law, such permits are valid only in Accomack and Northampton Counties.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0693) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1519ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17105046D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101088D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Transportation — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Transportation with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
• Les R. Adams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-22 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101088D introduction
• 2016-12-22 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-01-13 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2017-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 17105046D-H1
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1519H1
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-23 Enrolled
• 2017-02-23 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-24 Signed by President
• 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
• 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 693 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0849235-a60d-4577-95e9-2d943f2cdabf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).