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type: "Bill"
title: "Nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles; eliminates certain requirement sunset provision, report."
description: "Eliminates the requirement that nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles have incurred damage that exceeds 90 percent of their cash value prior to such damage to meet the definition of nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles. The bill requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to report to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Transportation Committees on the impact of the bill, if any, on the number of nonrepairable vehicle and salvage certificates issued over the three-year period beginning July 1, 2017, compared with the number of such certificates issued over the three-year period before July 1, 2017. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1687"
citation: "Virginia HB 1687 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry L. Austin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-06"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae27caa7-054c-49d3-9ca7-a45157f08a73"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1687"
source_hash: "ee06e401f93aeee2d54a5bfcb1244a3ffd2eb906793e984b8a0b2bdf3c50a7cd"
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 1687 (2017) — Nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles; eliminates certain requirement sunset provision, report.
Eliminates the requirement that nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles have incurred damage that exceeds 90 percent of their cash value prior to such damage to meet the definition of nonrepairable and rebuilt vehicles. The bill requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to report to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Transportation Committees on the impact of the bill, if any, on the number of nonrepairable vehicle and salvage certificates issued over the three-year period beginning July 1, 2017, compared with the number of such certificates issued over the three-year period before July 1, 2017. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2021.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0342)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1687ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1687ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103037D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1687)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103037D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1687E)
## Votes
- Passed Senate with amendment — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **951** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **932** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **130** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103037D `introduction`
- **2017-01-06** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB1687E
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17103037D-E
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 2-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`
- **2017-02-20** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N)
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** 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
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 342 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae27caa7-054c-49d3-9ca7-a45157f08a73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).