HB 559 VA

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Driver training school and driver training instructors; standards; discipline; report. Prohibits the licensure of a person as a driver training school instructor for driver education courses for minors if the person has been convicted of certain sex crimes or any offense that requires registration on the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry. The bill removes the five-year limitation on the period the Department of Motor Vehicles is authorized to set for a licensee whose license was revoked to reapply and provides that if the revocation was due to a conviction of (i) driving under the influence, (ii) reckless driving, (iii) refusal to submit to alcohol or drug testing, or (iv) vehicular manslaughter, such period shall be no less than 10 years. The bill requires the Department to establish and maintain a public, searchable database of disciplinary action taken by the Department against an instructor or driver training school. The bill requires driver training schools to notify students, prospective students, and guardians thereof of any such disciplinary actions taken in the preceding 24 months or while such student is enrolled. The bill also requires the Department to annually by November 1 submit a report to the Chairs of the House and Senate Committees on Transportation detailing such disciplinary actions. This bill is identical to SB 399.

• Scott A. Wyatt Republican · primary

1. Jan 13, 2026 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102599D · lower
2. Jan 13, 2026 Referred to Committee on Transportation · lower
3. Jan 19, 2026 Assigned HTRAN sub: Department of Motor Vehicles · lower
4. Jan 27, 2026 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) · lower
5. Jan 29, 2026 Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) · lower
6. Jan 29, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB559) · lower
7. Feb 2, 2026 Read first time · lower
8. Feb 3, 2026 Read second time and engrossed · lower
9. Feb 4, 2026 Passed by for the day · lower
10. Feb 5, 2026 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar · lower
11. Feb 5, 2026 Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (63-Y 35-N 0-A) · lower
12. Feb 5, 2026 Rereferred to Transportation · lower
13. Feb 10, 2026 Reported from Transportation (20-Y 0-N) · lower
14. Feb 12, 2026 Read first time · lower
15. Feb 13, 2026 Read second time and engrossed · lower
16. Feb 16, 2026 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A) · lower
17. Feb 16, 2026 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House · lower
18. Feb 16, 2026 Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) · lower
19. Feb 17, 2026 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) · upper
20. Feb 17, 2026 Referred to Committee on Transportation · upper
21. Feb 19, 2026 Reported from Transportation with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) · upper
22. Feb 20, 2026 Committee substitute printed 26108305D-S1 · upper
23. Feb 20, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB559) · lower
24. Feb 25, 2026 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) · upper
25. Feb 26, 2026 Rules suspended · upper
26. Feb 26, 2026 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A) · upper
27. Feb 26, 2026 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote) · upper
28. Feb 27, 2026 Read third time · upper
29. Feb 27, 2026 Transportation Substitute agreed to · upper
30. Feb 27, 2026 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute · upper
31. Feb 27, 2026 Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (37-Y 0-N 0-A) · upper
32. Mar 3, 2026 Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 2-N 0-A) · lower
33. Mar 10, 2026 Enrolled · lower
34. Mar 10, 2026 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB559ER) · lower
35. Mar 10, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB559) · lower
36. Mar 10, 2026 Signed by Speaker · lower
37. Mar 10, 2026 Signed by President · upper
38. Mar 14, 2026 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 · lower
39. Mar 14, 2026 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 · executive
40. Apr 10, 2026 Approved by Governor-Chapter 537 (effective 7/1/2026) · executive
41. Apr 10, 2026 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0537) · executive

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Chaptered · PDF
• Chaptered · HTML
• Enrolled · PDF
• Enrolled · HTML
• Transportation Substitute · PDF
• Transportation Substitute · HTML
• Introduced · PDF
• Introduced · HTML