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| Bill | Regulation of taxicabs. | Provides that the governing body of any county, city, or town that regulates taxicabs may authorize any taxicab to operate software-based devices that utilize GPS or other measurement data in the calculation of time-and-distance fares, notwithstanding the requirements for the specifications and tolerances for measuring and weighing devices. The bill repeals the requirement that all taxicabs display roof signs and specific markings. The bill contains an emergency clause. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 1761 | Virginia HB 1761 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 1761 (2017) — Regulation of taxicabs.
Provides that the governing body of any county, city, or town that regulates taxicabs may authorize any taxicab to operate software-based devices that utilize GPS or other measurement data in the calculation of time-and-distance fares, notwithstanding the requirements for the specifications and tolerances for measuring and weighing devices. The bill repeals the requirement that all taxicabs display roof signs and specific markings. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0528) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1761ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103625D (committee substitute) — source
- House: Printed as engrossed 17103625D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Richard L. Anderson — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103625D
introduction - 2017-01-09 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2017-01-13 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #4
referral-committee - 2017-01-25 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-01-26 Passed by temporarily
- 2017-01-26 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-01-26 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2017-01-26 Engrossed by House as amended HB1761E
- 2017-01-26 Printed as engrossed 17103625D-E
- 2017-01-27 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-01-30 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2017-02-13 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-13 Reading of amendment waived
- 2017-02-13 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2017-02-13 Emergency clause added
- 2017-02-13 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2017-02-15 Placed on Calendar
- 2017-02-15 Senate amendment agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- 2017-02-17 Enrolled
- 2017-02-17 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-20 Signed by President
- 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 528 (effective 3/16/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8464ab0-da81-4be5-a6be-6fd47d44256a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).