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type: "Bill"
title: "Driver's license designation; traumatic brain injury."
description: "Driver's license designation; traumatic braininjury. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon the requestof the applicant and presentation of a signed statement by a licensedphysician confirming the applicant's condition, to designate a traumaticbrain injury on the applicant's driver's license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 289"
citation: "Virginia SB 289 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Creigh Deeds"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a314eb8-53c9-404f-97b8-801acbd1d3ee"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB289"
source_hash: "cc2ab844ab43bb155d98fcbaaf53ec15f4c00e5945940f5f2650e14b9d438d18"
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 SB 289 (2020) — Driver's license designation; traumatic brain injury.
Driver's license designation; traumatic braininjury. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon the requestof the applicant and presentation of a signed statement by a licensedphysician confirming the applicant's condition, to designate a traumaticbrain injury on the applicant's driver's license.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0545)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0545)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB289ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB289ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate as amended SB289E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB289E)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB289)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB289)
## Votes
- Reported from Transportation with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102650D `introduction`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB289)
- **2020-01-23** Reported from Transportation with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Reading of amendment waived
- **2020-01-28** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2020-01-28** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB289E
- **2020-01-28** Printed as engrossed 20102650D-E
- **2020-01-29** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-29** Impact statement from DPB (SB289E)
- **2020-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Assigned Transportation sub: Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-20** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-02** Enrolled
- **2020-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB289ER)
- **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 545 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a314eb8-53c9-404f-97b8-801acbd1d3ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).