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Bill	Driver communication improvement program; DMV to develop and implement program.	Department of Motor Vehicles; driver communication improvement program. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a program for the promotion, printing, and distribution of envelopes for use by drivers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide to a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of easing communication during a traffic stop or upon such law-enforcement officer's arrival at the scene of a traffic accident.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2501	Virginia HB 2501 (2025)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	6	43	11	2025-01-08	2025-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/1f8d4f8f-e0ea-4aba-92bf-3fb30f874eb5	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2501	b0c33242d2fa5c4779a066144e9452d1c3c4495d42dc36edc37a85ac6ea7196d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2501 (2025) — Driver communication improvement program; DMV to develop and implement program.

Department of Motor Vehicles; driver communication improvement program. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a program for the promotion, printing, and distribution of envelopes for use by drivers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, as that term is defined in relevant law, to provide to a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of easing communication during a traffic stop or upon such law-enforcement officer's arrival at the scene of a traffic accident.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Governor's Recommendation (committee substitute) — source
4. Reenrolled (committee substitute) — source
5. Transportation Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Adele Y. McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Atoosa R. Reaser — cosponsor (person)
• Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
• Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
• Debra D. Gardner — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Eric R. Zehr — cosponsor (person)
• Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Karen Keys-Gamarra — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Katrina Callsen — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
• Laura Jane Cohen — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Phil M. Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
• Rae Cousins — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100550D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-01-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2501)
• 2025-01-23 Assigned Trans sub: Department of Motor Vehicles referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-30 Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Transportation with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Committee substitute printed 25107369D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-14 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-18 Transportation Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-18 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2501)
• 2025-02-19 Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2501ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2501)
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Governor's recommendation received by House executive-veto-line-item
• 2025-04-02 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
• 2025-04-02 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N)
• 2025-04-02 Governor's recommendation adopted executive-signature
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Reenrolled bill text (HB2501ER2) enrolled
• 2025-04-02 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Signed by President as reenrolled enrolled, passage
• 2025-04-02 Enacted, Chapter 665 (Effective 07/01/25) became-law
• 2025-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0665)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f8d4f8f-e0ea-4aba-92bf-3fb30f874eb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).