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type: "Bill"
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title: "Motor Vehicles, Department of; records released to certain private vendors."
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description: "Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to release certain vehicle owner data, upon request, to a private vendor operating a video-monitoring system on or in a school bus. The bill limits how such data can be used and stored and provides that any person who unlawfully discloses such data is subject to a civil penalty of $1,000 for each disclosure. The bill provides that drivers required to stop for a stopped school bus shall remain stopped until the school bus is put in motion. This bill is identical to"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2019"
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identifier: "HB 2344"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2344 (2019)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 22
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2019-01-08"
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last_action: "2019-03-18"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f04137dc-0f79-4e85-a99c-d97e226bb818"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2344"
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source_hash: "32e30216d233fb22618740f7602cd36a83e08eceb5414e2d934ba672035bbc3f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 2344 (2019) — Motor Vehicles, Department of; records released to certain private vendors.
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Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to release certain vehicle owner data, upon request, to a private vendor operating a video-monitoring system on or in a school bus. The bill limits how such data can be used and stored and provides that any person who unlawfully discloses such data is subject to a civil penalty of $1,000 for each disclosure. The bill provides that drivers required to stop for a stopped school bus shall remain stopped until the school bus is put in motion. This bill is identical to
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0543)
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2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2344)
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3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2344ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2344ER)
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4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105476D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2344H1)
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5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102619D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2344)
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6. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2344ASE)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Transportation with amendments — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **16–0** (pass) · lower
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102619D `introduction`
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- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-18** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2019-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 19105476D-H1
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- **2019-01-30** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2344H1
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- **2019-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2019-02-01** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2019-02-18** Reading of amendments waived
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- **2019-02-18** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2019-02-18** Engrossed by Senate as amended
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- **2019-02-19** Placed on Calendar
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- **2019-02-19** Senate amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
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- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
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- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
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- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
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- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
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- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
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- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 543 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f04137dc-0f79-4e85-a99c-d97e226bb818`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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