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type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial driver's license; third party testers, etc."
description: "Commercial driver's license examinations. Authorizes governmental entities, including comprehensive community colleges in the Virginia Community College System, certified as third party testers to test and train drivers employed by another governmental entity or enrolled in a commercial driver training course offered by a community college. The bill extends the validity of a skills test certification from 60 days to six months. This bill incorporates HB 628."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1146"
citation: "Virginia HB 1146 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efdb860f-8bca-4afc-af3d-c5ec3626b072"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB1146"
source_hash: "1a4a28bb584bb74e90cfcee9543d076954dc3676098c922540cccd20d2c5acfc"
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 HB 1146 (2022) — Commercial driver's license; third party testers, etc.
Commercial driver's license examinations. Authorizes governmental entities, including comprehensive community colleges in the Virginia Community College System, certified as third party testers to test and train drivers employed by another governmental entity or enrolled in a commercial driver training course offered by a community college. The bill extends the validity of a skills test certification from 60 days to six months. This bill incorporates HB 628.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0060** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0060)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22104761D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1146H1)
3. **HB1146ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1146ER)
4. **Presented and ordered printed 22103457D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1146)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N) — **90** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-13** Presented and ordered printed 22103457D `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB1146)
- **2022-02-01** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Transportation with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Committee substitute printed 22104761D-H1 `substitution`
- **2022-02-03** Incorporates HB628 (Hudson)
- **2022-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-08** Committee substitute agreed to 22104761D-H1
- **2022-02-08** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1146H1
- **2022-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB1146H1)
- **2022-02-09** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-09** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-10** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Enrolled
- **2022-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-02-25** Signed by President
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- **2022-03-09** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB1146ER)
- **2022-04-01** Approved by Governor-Chapter 60 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/efdb860f-8bca-4afc-af3d-c5ec3626b072`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).