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type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial driver's license; instruction in comprehensive community colleges."
description: "Allows comprehensive community colleges in the Virginia Community College System to administer the in-vehicle component of driver instruction to students enrolled in a commercial driver training course offered by such community college who have failed the behind-the-wheel examination or general knowledge examination for a commercial driver's license three times. The bill requires that after such additional training, the Department of Motor Vehicles only shall administer the applicable exam. The bill requires that comprehensive community colleges offering such coursework meet certain standards as established by the Department and that the Department notify such comprehensive community colleges and similarly affected schools of course curriculum requirements and notify such colleges and schools if new topics are added to the mandatory curriculum. Such comprehensive community colleges and affected schools shall have 45 days to comply and update their course curriculum with the relevant changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2075"
citation: "Virginia HB 2075 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony O. Wilt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf471bdc-9e21-4ebd-a1c6-e783935c2ec1"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2075"
source_hash: "ddcfe49b5e949dd5fc3db368981004dd8dd03fc52c60091e5167a09fa247ad5e"
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 2075 (2017) — Commercial driver's license; instruction in comprehensive community colleges.
Allows comprehensive community colleges in the Virginia Community College System to administer the in-vehicle component of driver instruction to students enrolled in a commercial driver training course offered by such community college who have failed the behind-the-wheel examination or general knowledge examination for a commercial driver's license three times. The bill requires that after such additional training, the Department of Motor Vehicles only shall administer the applicable exam. The bill requires that comprehensive community colleges offering such coursework meet certain standards as established by the Department and that the Department notify such comprehensive community colleges and similarly affected schools of course curriculum requirements and notify such colleges and schools if new topics are added to the mandatory curriculum. Such comprehensive community colleges and affected schools shall have 45 days to comply and update their course curriculum with the relevant changes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0232)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0232)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2075ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2075ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103591D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2075)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103591D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2075E)
## Votes
- Reported from Transportation with amendments — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **130** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)
- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103591D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-01-30** Engrossed by House as amended HB2075E
- **2017-01-30** Printed as engrossed 17103591D-E
- **2017-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-01** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 232 (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/cf471bdc-9e21-4ebd-a1c6-e783935c2ec1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).