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Bill	Exempted vehicles; insurance.	Exempted vehicles; insurance. Requires motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers exempted from the registration requirement to be covered by motor vehicle insurance; a general liability policy; or an umbrella or excess insurance policy. The bill requires the owner of any such motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer to provide proof of insurance within 30 days when requested by a law-enforcement officer and provides that failure to do so is punishable as a traffic infraction by a fine of $600 to be paid into the Uninsured Motorists Fund.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 733	Virginia SB 733 (2022)	bill		enacted	Frank M. Ruff, Jr.	4	35	10	2022-01-21	2022-04-27	openstates	ocd-bill/ae2017d5-3775-4c82-ae76-f1b7034363a9	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB733	64168a029e1feb39814585d8e721234c09c32528153addff4b70d78a5ba3d6bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 733 (2022) — Exempted vehicles; insurance.

Exempted vehicles; insurance. Requires motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers exempted from the registration requirement to be covered by motor vehicle insurance; a general liability policy; or an umbrella or excess insurance policy. The bill requires the owner of any such motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer to provide proof of insurance within 30 days when requested by a law-enforcement officer and provides that failure to do so is punishable as a traffic infraction by a fine of $600 to be paid into the Uninsured Motorists Fund.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0736 (committee substitute) — source
2. Presented and ordered printed 22104317D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB733ER (committee substitute) — source
4. SB733ER2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-21 Presented and ordered printed 22104317D introduction
• 2022-01-21 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2022-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB733)
• 2022-02-03 Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-08 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-09 Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-09 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-09 Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 Department of Motor Vehicles referral-committee
• 2022-03-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-01 Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-09 Enrolled
• 2022-03-09 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 2022-03-15 Impact statement from DPB (SB733ER)
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
• 2022-04-27 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 Governor's recommendation adopted
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled bill text (SB733ER2)
• 2022-04-27 Signed by President as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Enacted, Chapter 736 (effective 7/1/22) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ae2017d5-3775-4c82-ae76-f1b7034363a9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).