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type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation companies, certain; local regulation."
description: "Local regulation of certain transportation companies.Extends from January 1, 2020, to October 1, 2020, the prohibitionon offering motorized skateboards or scooters, bicycles, or electricpower-assisted bicycles for hire in any locality that has not enactedany licensing ordinance, regulation, or other action regulating suchbusiness. The bill clarifies that localities are authorized to createor amend such ordinances, regulations, or actions even after anysuch business is operating in the locality and exercise authorityotherwise authorized by law. The bill contains an emergency clause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 465"
citation: "Virginia HB 465 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37610fb2-ed23-46e2-87b7-2afea498999b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB465"
source_hash: "f040402d5cbe041e1f0244f345deb6c3f96cd33c7c93539cbf0560524a2c9ad1"
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 465 (2020) — Transportation companies, certain; local regulation.
Local regulation of certain transportation companies.Extends from January 1, 2020, to October 1, 2020, the prohibitionon offering motorized skateboards or scooters, bicycles, or electricpower-assisted bicycles for hire in any locality that has not enactedany licensing ordinance, regulation, or other action regulating suchbusiness. The bill clarifies that localities are authorized to createor amend such ordinances, regulations, or actions even after anysuch business is operating in the locality and exercise authorityotherwise authorized by law. The bill contains an emergency clause.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0478)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB465ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB465ER)
3. **Impact statement from DHCD (HB465)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB465)
## Votes
- Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage Emergency (93-Y 5-N) — **925** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-03** Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 20103293D `introduction`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Assigned Transportation sub: Transportation Innovations and General Topics `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-18** Impact statement from DHCD (HB465)
- **2020-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-23** Reported from Transportation (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-29** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 5-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-29** VOTE: Passage Emergency (93-Y 5-N)
- **2020-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-01-30** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 478 (effective 3/27/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37610fb2-ed23-46e2-87b7-2afea498999b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).