republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-925.md

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Bill	Towing; vehicles with expired registration, civil penalty.	Towing; vehicles with expired registration;civil penalty. Requires a landlord that owns the parking lotof a multifamily dwelling unit, defined in the bill, to provide 48hours' notice to a resident prior to removing or requesting the removalof a resident's vehicle, defined in the bill, from such parking lotof the multifamily dwelling unit for an expired registration or expiredvehicle inspection sticker and to provide a copy of such notice to any towing operator with whom the landlord has contracted to enforcetowing in such parking lot. The bill provides that if a landlordfails to provide such notice or does not wait the required 48 hoursbefore removing or requesting the removal of the vehicle, he shallbe subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $250. The bill also prohibitstowing operators, having such notice, from towing such vehicle untilafter the 48 hours have passed.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 925	Virginia HB 925 (2024)	bill		enacted	Irene Shin	4	33	7	2024-01-09	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/0dc9ee5f-850d-4276-80c7-98156f1464cb	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB925	3f395443ab6f406bb4a3ad1f89dfec53b513677eef3878e08a9097e9ed203e8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 925 (2024) — Towing; vehicles with expired registration, civil penalty.

Towing; vehicles with expired registration;civil penalty. Requires a landlord that owns the parking lotof a multifamily dwelling unit, defined in the bill, to provide 48hours' notice to a resident prior to removing or requesting the removalof a resident's vehicle, defined in the bill, from such parking lotof the multifamily dwelling unit for an expired registration or expiredvehicle inspection sticker and to provide a copy of such notice to any towing operator with whom the landlord has contracted to enforcetowing in such parking lot. The bill provides that if a landlordfails to provide such notice or does not wait the required 48 hoursbefore removing or requesting the removal of the vehicle, he shallbe subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $250. The bill also prohibitstowing operators, having such notice, from towing such vehicle untilafter the 48 hours have passed.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0308 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106829D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB925ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105001D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N) — 50–49 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation with substitute (12-Y 10-N) — 12–10 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 48-N) — 51–48 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Irene Shin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24105001D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Assigned Transportation sub: Innovations (Ad Hoc) referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-02 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) substitution
• 2024-02-06 Reported from Transportation with substitute (12-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Committee substitute printed 24106829D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Committee substitute agreed to 24106829D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB925H1 substitution
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed House (51-Y 49-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-12 VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N) passage
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-22 Reported from Transportation with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Reading of amendments waived
• 2024-02-27 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-27 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2024-02-27 Passed Senate with amendments (38-Y 1-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Senate amendments agreed to by House (52-Y 48-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-02-29 VOTE: Adoption (52-Y 48-N)
• 2024-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB925ER) passage
• 2024-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 308 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0dc9ee5f-850d-4276-80c7-98156f1464cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).