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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle dealers; use of buyer's order for leased motor vehicles."
description: "Motor vehicle dealers; buyer's order; leased motor vehicles. Clarifies the use of buyer's orders for leased vehicles and provides that such forms may be separate from the buyer's order forms used for a sale of a motor vehicle."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2659"
citation: "Virginia HB 2659 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul V. Milde"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-15"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d7ae4d3-9cc5-46de-acd9-965204cee9ab"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2659"
source_hash: "2053cd4967d0fef66bebcd46e022ee62bff836c0f78d958db9404c4f3c406efd"
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 2659 (2025) — Motor vehicle dealers; use of buyer's order for leased motor vehicles.
Motor vehicle dealers; buyer's order; leased motor vehicles. Clarifies the use of buyer's orders for leased vehicles and provides that such forms may be separate from the buyer's order forms used for a sale of a motor vehicle.
## 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/1020639.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071246.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1037099.PDF)
4. **HTRAN Sub: Department of Motor Vehicles Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1031248.HTML)
5. **Transportation Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036190.HTML)
6. **Transportation Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1052662.PDF)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1064848.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) — **202** (pass) · lower
- Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Paul V. Milde — primary (person)
- Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-15** Presented and ordered printed 25101637D `introduction`
- **2025-01-15** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Assigned Trans sub: Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (20-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2659)
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Transportation Amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2025-02-03** Printed as engrossed 25101637D-E
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2659)
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Committee substitute printed 25107398D-S1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Reading of substitute waived
- **2025-02-18** Transportation Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-18** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-03-04** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2659)
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2659ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2659)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 99 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0099)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d7ae4d3-9cc5-46de-acd9-965204cee9ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).