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| Bill | Farm use vehicles, certain; registration exemption, highway distance limitations. | Increases from 50 to 75 miles the maximum travel distance allowable for travel to obtain supplies or from one part of the owner's land to another by a vehicle used for agricultural or horticultural purposes in order to qualify for exemption from the requirements to obtain a registration certificate, license plates, or decals and pay a registration fee. The bill also increases from 50 to 75 miles the maximum travel distance allowable by vehicles used for seasonal transportation of farm produce and from 20 to 75 miles the maximum travel distance allowable for vehicles owned by farmers and used to transport wood products in order to qualify for such exemption. The bill also provides that any law-enforcement officer may require any person operating a vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer and claiming the farm use exemption to provide, upon request, the address of the farm or lands owned or leased by the vehicle's owner or, if such address is unavailable or unknown, the real property parcel identification number of such lands. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 2239 | Virginia HB 2239 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 2239 (2017) — Farm use vehicles, certain; registration exemption, highway distance limitations.
Increases from 50 to 75 miles the maximum travel distance allowable for travel to obtain supplies or from one part of the owner's land to another by a vehicle used for agricultural or horticultural purposes in order to qualify for exemption from the requirements to obtain a registration certificate, license plates, or decals and pay a registration fee. The bill also increases from 50 to 75 miles the maximum travel distance allowable by vehicles used for seasonal transportation of farm produce and from 20 to 75 miles the maximum travel distance allowable for vehicles owned by farmers and used to transport wood products in order to qualify for such exemption. The bill also provides that any law-enforcement officer may require any person operating a vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer and claiming the farm use exemption to provide, upon request, the address of the farm or lands owned or leased by the vehicle's owner or, if such address is unavailable or unknown, the real property parcel identification number of such lands.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2239ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 17104880D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101982D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — 96–1 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- C. Matthew Fariss — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101982D
introduction - 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2017-01-17 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 17104880D-H1
- 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2239H1
- 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 1-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
- 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 538 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03f9b9db-c08d-49d6-b150-b080d7f097f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).