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SB 720 VA
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Driver training schools; instructor identification license.

VA · session 2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 14, 2026

Latest action (Apr 8, 2026) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)

Summary

Driver training schools; instructor identification license. Requires any instructor employed by a driver training school, when conducting behind-the-wheel training or any other training in which a student of a driver training school is driving or operating a motor vehicle, to display, or cause to be displayed, in the motor vehicle in a location that is clearly visible to the student his license authorizing him to act as a driving instructor.

Sponsor (1)

Action history (33)

  1. Jan 14, 2026 Presented and ordered printed 26102754D · upper
  2. Jan 14, 2026 Referred to Committee on Transportation · upper
  3. Jan 29, 2026 Reported from Transportation and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) · upper
  4. Feb 4, 2026 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) · upper
  5. Feb 4, 2026 Senate committee offered · upper
  6. Feb 5, 2026 Committee substitute printed 26107231D-S1 · upper
  7. Feb 5, 2026 Rules suspended · upper
  8. Feb 5, 2026 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A) · upper
  9. Feb 5, 2026 Passed by for the day (Voice Vote) · upper
  10. Feb 5, 2026 Passed by for the day · upper
  11. Feb 6, 2026 Read second time · upper
  12. Feb 6, 2026 Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to · upper
  13. Feb 6, 2026 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote) · upper
  14. Feb 9, 2026 Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) · upper
  15. Feb 12, 2026 Placed on Calendar · lower
  16. Feb 12, 2026 Read first time · lower
  17. Feb 12, 2026 Referred to Committee on Transportation · lower
  18. Feb 12, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB720) · upper
  19. Feb 20, 2026 Assigned HTRAN sub: Department of Motor Vehicles · lower
  20. Mar 3, 2026 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) · lower
  21. Mar 5, 2026 Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) · lower
  22. Mar 9, 2026 Read second time · lower
  23. Mar 10, 2026 Read third time · lower
  24. Mar 10, 2026 Passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A) · lower
  25. Mar 30, 2026 Enrolled · upper
  26. Mar 30, 2026 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB720ER) · upper
  27. Mar 30, 2026 Signed by President · upper
  28. Mar 31, 2026 Signed by Speaker · lower
  29. Mar 31, 2026 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026 · upper
  30. Mar 31, 2026 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 · executive
  31. Apr 1, 2026 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB720) · upper
  32. Apr 8, 2026 Approved by Governor-Chapter 521 (effective 7/1/2026) · executive
  33. Apr 8, 2026 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521) · executive

Text versions (10)

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
  • Finance and Appropriations Substitute · PDF
  • Finance and Appropriations Substitute · HTML
  • Finance and Appropriations Substitute · PDF
  • Finance and Appropriations Substitute · HTML
  • Introduced · PDF
  • Introduced · HTML

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