republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2300.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Motor vehicles, certain; operation by sex offenders.	Prohibits any person who is required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry or the federal National Sex Offender Public Website from operating a taxicab for the transportation of passengers for hire.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2300	Virginia HB 2300 (2019)	bill	Crimes and Offenses Generally Minors Motor Vehicles	enacted	Christopher E. Collins	7	24	7	2019-01-08	2019-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/89c57147-fabf-4b1e-846f-39016a82707b	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2300	eb7186cb91d80c47ed65a232bdf89d650c9820d70fbe8b27fbb7bc1952fb930b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2300 (2019) — Motor vehicles, certain; operation by sex offenders.

Prohibits any person who is required to register on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry or the federal National Sex Offender Public Website from operating a taxicab for the transportation of passengers for hire.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2300ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100775D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19100775D-E (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106790D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106790D-S1 — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Christopher E. Collins — primary (person)
• Jason S. Miyares — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100775D introduction
• 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-01-14 Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2019-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2019-02-04 Engrossed by House as amended HB2300E
• 2019-02-04 Printed as engrossed 19100775D-E
• 2019-02-05 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2019-02-13 Passed by for the day
• 2019-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-14 Committee substitute agreed to 19106790D-S1
• 2019-02-14 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2300S1
• 2019-02-18 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-18 Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106790D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
• 2019-02-21 Enrolled
• 2019-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-21 Signed by President
• 2019-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
• 2019-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 480 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/89c57147-fabf-4b1e-846f-39016a82707b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).