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Bill	Driver's license; suspension for nonpayment of fines or costs, reinstatement of privilege to drive.	Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended. The bill also removes a provision allowing the court to require a defendant to present a summary prepared by the Department of Motor Vehicles of the other courts in which the defendant also owes fines and costs. The bill requires the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to return or reinstate any person's driver's license that was suspended prior to July 1, 2019, solely for nonpayment of fines or costs. Such person does not have to pay a reinstatement fee. The bill contains an emergency clause and incorporates SB 10, SB 514, and SB 814.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 1	Virginia SB 1 (2020)	bill		enacted	William M. Stanley, Jr.	5	43	8	2019-11-18	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/5558c181-fa94-49a9-92af-3dc9b8e24658	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB1	a2267f1401d13b0379760bd391c0225f7cae9cd2d94ed4628bb8c3a3e220a062	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1 (2020) — Driver's license; suspension for nonpayment of fines or costs, reinstatement of privilege to drive.

Suspension of driver's license for nonpayment of fines or costs. Repeals the requirement that the driver's license of a person convicted of any violation of the law who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs be suspended. The bill also removes a provision allowing the court to require a defendant to present a summary prepared by the Department of Motor Vehicles of the other courts in which the defendant also owes fines and costs. The bill requires the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to return or reinstate any person's driver's license that was suspended prior to July 1, 2019, solely for nonpayment of fines or costs. Such person does not have to pay a reinstatement fee. The bill contains an emergency clause and incorporates SB 10, SB 514, and SB 814.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0965) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB1ES1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DPB (SB1S1) (committee substitute) — source
5. Incorporates SB10 (Ebbin) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (75-Y 25-N) — 74–25 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (18-Y 3-N) — 18–3 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (16-Y 6-N) — 16–6 (pass) · lower
• House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (13-Y 2-N 1-A) — 13–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
• Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
• David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
• Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• John S. Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
• T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-11-18 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100383D introduction
• 2019-11-18 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-08 Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 2020-01-15 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-15 Committee substitute printed 20105850D-S1 substitution
• 2020-01-15 Incorporates SB10 (Ebbin)
• 2020-01-15 Incorporates SB514 (Edwards)
• 2020-01-15 Incorporates SB814 (Morrisey)
• 2020-01-15 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB1S1)
• 2020-01-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (13-Y 2-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 20105850D-S1
• 2020-01-31 Emergency clause added
• 2020-01-31 Reading of amendment waived
• 2020-01-31 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB1ES1
• 2020-01-31 Printed as engrossed 20105850D-ES1
• 2020-02-03 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (SB1ES1)
• 2020-02-18 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-18 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-18 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (18-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-19 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Reported from Appropriations (16-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-25 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-26 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2020-02-26 Emergency clause deleted
• 2020-02-26 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2020-02-26 Passed House with amendment (75-Y 25-N) passage
• 2020-02-26 VOTE: Passage (75-Y 25-N)
• 2020-02-26 House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled
• 2020-03-03 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-04 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
• 2020-03-13 Impact statement from DPB (SB1ER)
• 2020-04-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 965 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5558c181-fa94-49a9-92af-3dc9b8e24658. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).