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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.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0544) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB246ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB246S1) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB246S1) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N) — 6–2 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N) — 21–18 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (57-Y 43-N) — 56–43 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N 1-A) — 10–5 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with substitute (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (13-Y 9-N) — 13–9 (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).