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type: "Bill"
title: "Parking enforcement; high tourism localities."
description: "Parking enforcement; issuance of a summons or parking ticket. Removes the population requirement for a locality to be authorized to, by ordinance, authorize law-enforcement officers, other uniformed employees of the locality, and uniformed personnel serving under contract with the locality to issue a summons or parking ticket for a violation of an ordinance regulating the parking, stopping, and standing of vehicles. Existing law grants such authority to localities having a population of at least 40,000. This bill is identical to HB 783."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 67"
citation: "Virginia SB 67 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.D. \"Danny\" Diggs"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-17"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7fad9ee9-7bd8-410d-83c4-786fb09e0ad2"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB67"
source_hash: "a19c5b13384f39cb1b99879c6143328d09f679f07825e8f77bec205d721b10c9"
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 67 (2026) — Parking enforcement; high tourism localities.
Parking enforcement; issuance of a summons or parking ticket. Removes the population requirement for a locality to be authorized to, by ordinance, authorize law-enforcement officers, other uniformed employees of the locality, and uniformed personnel serving under contract with the locality to issue a summons or parking ticket for a violation of an ordinance regulating the parking, stopping, and standing of vehicles. Existing law grants such authority to localities having a population of at least 40,000. This bill is identical to HB 783.
## 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/1081935.PDF)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1091396.PDF)
3. **Transportation Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1091174.HTML)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1188642.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Transportation with amendments — **110** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **7915** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **319** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- J.D. "Danny" Diggs — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-17** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102628D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-12-17** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Reported from Transportation with amendments (11-Y 0-N 3-A) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-16** Senate committee offered
- **2026-01-19** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-01-19** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-20** Transportation Amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-03** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24** Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-27** Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
- **2026-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-27** Passed House (79-Y 15-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-04** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB67ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-04** 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`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 938 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7fad9ee9-7bd8-410d-83c4-786fb09e0ad2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).