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type: "Bill"
title: "Driver training schools; instructor identification license."
description: "Driver training schools; instructor identification license. Requires any instructor employed by a driver training school, when conducting behind-the-wheel training or any other training in which a student of a driver training school is driving or operating a motor vehicle, to display, or cause to be displayed, in the motor vehicle in a location that is clearly visible to the student his license authorizing him to act as a driving instructor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 720"
citation: "Virginia SB 720 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David W. Marsden"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96ea48be-d1cc-4d7e-bda3-c3fba5b76d06"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB720"
source_hash: "ba908ad529f19e66db7cee77740b981657b23cd3fcf3daaf465ca70f7f82360e"
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 720 (2026) — Driver training schools; instructor identification license.
Driver training schools; instructor identification license. Requires any instructor employed by a driver training school, when conducting behind-the-wheel training or any other training in which a student of a driver training school is driving or operating a motor vehicle, to display, or cause to be displayed, in the motor vehicle in a location that is clearly visible to the student his license authorizing him to act as a driving instructor.
## 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/1092148.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1218194.PDF)
3. **Finance and Appropriations Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1128102.PDF)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1209896.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation — **210** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation — **140** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **100** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David W. Marsden — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-14** Presented and ordered printed 26102754D `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Reported from Transportation and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-04** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-04** Senate committee offered
- **2026-02-05** Committee substitute printed 26107231D-S1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-05** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-05** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-05** Passed by for the day
- **2026-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-06** Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to
- **2026-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote) `substitution`
- **2026-02-09** Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-12** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-12** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB720)
- **2026-02-20** Assigned HTRAN sub: Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-03** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2026-03-05** Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** Passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-30** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-30** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB720ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-31** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-01** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB720)
- **2026-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 521 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96ea48be-d1cc-4d7e-bda3-c3fba5b76d06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).