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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicles, Department of, and Supreme Court of Virginia; repeals reporting requirement."
description: "Repeal of reporting requirement; Departmentof Motor Vehicles and Supreme Court of Virginia. Repeals an enactmentclause that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles and the SupremeCourt of Virginia to submit an annual report regarding the implementationof a program to allow the Department to collect certain fees andfines on behalf of a district or circuit court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1277"
citation: "Virginia SB 1277 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen D. Newman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef681483-8d01-4cdf-b134-6601b03d14a3"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1277"
source_hash: "5c127f5d41b0cd1fc174ea7b3c71cdefe6965e472819e8f6bdbedd69acf66c4d"
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 1277 (2021) — Motor Vehicles, Department of, and Supreme Court of Virginia; repeals reporting requirement.
Repeal of reporting requirement; Departmentof Motor Vehicles and Supreme Court of Virginia. Repeals an enactmentclause that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles and the SupremeCourt of Virginia to submit an annual report regarding the implementationof a program to allow the Department to collect certain fees andfines on behalf of a district or circuit court.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0379** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0379)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101135D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1277)
3. **SB1277ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1277ER)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **100** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation — **00** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Stephen D. Newman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101135D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB1277)
- **2021-01-27** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation
- **2021-02-09** Assigned Transportation sub: Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-15** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-23** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Signed by President
- **2021-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB1277ER)
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 379 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ef681483-8d01-4cdf-b134-6601b03d14a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).