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type: "Bill"
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title: "Motor vehicle dealers; definitions."
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description: "Provides that offering to sell, selling, displaying, or permitting the display for sale of five or more vehicles within any 12 consecutive months creates a rebuttable presumption that a person is a motor vehicle dealer. Current law defines such person as a motor vehicle dealer. The bill provides for new trailers to be treated similarly to new motor vehicles in various provisions. The bill adds manufacturers or distributors selling new motor vehicles at wholesale to their franchised dealer or used motor vehicles to a licensed dealer, as well as persons dealing fire-fighting vehicles and ambulances, to a list of parties exempted from the definition of motor vehicle dealer."
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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 2487"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2487 (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: ["T. Scott Garrett"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2019-01-09"
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last_action: "2019-02-27"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b25ffaa1-f93c-4adc-b409-11f186a3dde5"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2487"
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source_hash: "f1b0b13e5b9a1d381707a90cb04eee7a0c83dd993f9f9b41fdae8dd7fa305fe0"
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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 2487 (2019) — Motor vehicle dealers; definitions.
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Provides that offering to sell, selling, displaying, or permitting the display for sale of five or more vehicles within any 12 consecutive months creates a rebuttable presumption that a person is a motor vehicle dealer. Current law defines such person as a motor vehicle dealer. The bill provides for new trailers to be treated similarly to new motor vehicles in various provisions. The bill adds manufacturers or distributors selling new motor vehicles at wholesale to their franchised dealer or used motor vehicles to a licensed dealer, as well as persons dealing fire-fighting vehicles and ambulances, to a list of parties exempted from the definition of motor vehicle dealer.
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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 (CHAP0160)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0160)
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2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2487AH)
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3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2487)
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4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2487ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2487ER)
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5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103001D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2487)
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6. **House: Printed as engrossed 19103001D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2487E)
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## Votes
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from Transportation with amendments — **22–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- T. Scott Garrett — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103001D `introduction`
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- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-18** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
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- **2019-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2019-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2019-01-29** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2019-01-29** Engrossed by House as amended HB2487E
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- **2019-01-29** Printed as engrossed 19103001D-E
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- **2019-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2019-01-30** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
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- **2019-01-30** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2019-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2019-01-31** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
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- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
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- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
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- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
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- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
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- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 160 (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/b25ffaa1-f93c-4adc-b409-11f186a3dde5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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