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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Electronic credentials; creates standards for DMV in issuing, reviewing, etc., report."
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description: "Creates standards for the Department of Motor Vehicles in issuing, reviewing, and displaying electronic credentials. The Electronic Credentials Act establishes fees for access to electronic credentials and standards for a verification system that would allow users to verify the authenticity of electronic credentials."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 2229"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2229 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Computer Services and Uses", "Motor Vehicles", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ronald A. Villanueva"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 9
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first_action: "2017-01-11"
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last_action: "2017-03-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a101c806-0997-41b9-98c5-24c56aaf9b1a"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2229"
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source_hash: "8cef5b4b89fbb131560786ecbd23ab407238f44bf975abc33238fbf76414f2eb"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 2229 (2017) — Electronic credentials; creates standards for DMV in issuing, reviewing, etc., report.
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Creates standards for the Department of Motor Vehicles in issuing, reviewing, and displaying electronic credentials. The Electronic Credentials Act establishes fees for access to electronic credentials and standards for a verification system that would allow users to verify the authenticity of electronic credentials.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0697)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0697)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2229ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2229ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102057D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2229)
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4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102057D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2229E)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Finance — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Ronald A. Villanueva — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102057D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-17** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-30** Committee amendment agreed to
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- **2017-01-30** Engrossed by House as amended HB2229E
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- **2017-01-30** Printed as engrossed 17102057D-E
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- **2017-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-02-01** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-14** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
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- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 697 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a101c806-0997-41b9-98c5-24c56aaf9b1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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