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Bill Driver's license, etc.; sex designation on application form. Department of Motor Vehicles; sex designation. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to offer any applicant the option to mark "male," "female," or "non-binary" when designating the applicant's sex on an application for a driver's license or special identification card. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2020 SB 246 Virginia SB 246 (2020)
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Virginia SB 246 (2020) — Driver's license, etc.; sex designation on application form.

Department of Motor Vehicles; sex designation. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to offer any applicant the option to mark "male," "female," or "non-binary" when designating the applicant's sex on an application for a driver's license or special identification card.

Version chain

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

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB246ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Impact statement from DPB (SB246S1) (committee substitute) — source
  4. Impact statement from DPB (SB246S1) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — 62 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) — 2118 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (57-Y 43-N) — 5643 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N 1-A) — 105 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Transportation with substitute (10-Y 5-N) — 105 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Transportation (13-Y 9-N) — 139 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)
  • Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101569D introduction
  • 2020-01-02 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
  • 2020-01-16 Reported from Transportation with substitute (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-01-16 Committee substitute printed 20105924D-S1 substitution
  • 2020-01-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2020-01-28 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N 1-A) committee-passage
  • 2020-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB246S1)
  • 2020-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-01-30 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-01-30 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2020-01-30 Committee substitute agreed to 20105924D-S1
  • 2020-01-30 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB246S1
  • 2020-01-31 Passed by for the day
  • 2020-02-03 Passed by for the day
  • 2020-02-04 Passed by for the day
  • 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
  • 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
  • 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
  • 2020-02-13 Assigned Transportation sub: Motor Vehicles referral-committee
  • 2020-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2020-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
  • 2020-02-20 Reported from Transportation (13-Y 9-N) committee-passage
  • 2020-02-24 Read second time reading-2
  • 2020-02-25 Read third time reading-3
  • 2020-02-25 Passed by temporarily
  • 2020-02-25 Passed House (57-Y 43-N) passage
  • 2020-02-25 VOTE: Passage (57-Y 43-N)
  • 2020-03-02 Enrolled
  • 2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
  • 2020-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB246ER)
  • 2020-03-03 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
  • 2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 544 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fba918a7-86d5-4c20-91f1-b37daf3d9b7b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).