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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicles, Department of; electronic transactions, voluntary contributions."
description: "Voluntary contributions during electronic Department of Motor Vehicles transactions. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide a method by which an individual conducting certain electronic Department transactions may make a voluntary contribution to the Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program. Under current law, the Department is only required to provide a method by which voluntary contributions may be made to the Virginia Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 41"
citation: "Virginia SB 41 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-11-22"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a61ec62-e3bc-4714-b5d2-9e91db406ce2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB41"
source_hash: "1d6faf65be9d9e00d8e256b0c3e1c72d6ba506b12025cd33da62573c0242835e"
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 41 (2026) — Motor Vehicles, Department of; electronic transactions, voluntary contributions.
Voluntary contributions during electronic Department of Motor Vehicles transactions. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide a method by which an individual conducting certain electronic Department transactions may make a voluntary contribution to the Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program. Under current law, the Department is only required to provide a method by which voluntary contributions may be made to the Virginia Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1081656.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217498.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1128566.PDF)
4. **Transportation Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1091403.HTML)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194790.PDF)
## Votes
- H VOTE: — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation — **210** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **100** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-11-22** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100735D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-11-22** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB41)
- **2026-01-14** Senate committee offered
- **2026-01-15** Reported from Transportation with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-03** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-04** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-04** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-05** Transportation Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-05** Engrossed by Senate as amended Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-06** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-06** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB41)
- **2026-02-12** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-12** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-12** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20** Assigned HTRAN sub: Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2026-02-26** Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-09** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB41ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB41)
- **2026-03-09** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 328 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0328)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a61ec62-e3bc-4714-b5d2-9e91db406ce2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).