Towing; regulations for those seeking tow truck authorization documents and provisional changes. (HB1012)
Introduced By
Del. Tim Hugo (R-Centreville) with support from co-patron Sen. Edd Houck (D-Spotsylvania)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Towing. Requires that a vehicle has insurance providing coverage for towing, recovery, and storage fees in order to be considered "insured motor vehicle" for the purpose of vehicle registration. The bill further allows tow trucks to use crossovers on controlled-access highways when providing a public safety towing and recovery service. Additionally, the bill repeals the provision that allows insurance company agents and persons subject to a vehicle security interest to have vehicles that have been towed as the result of a police-towing request to be towed to another location ("secondary tow"). Also repealed is the requirement that towing and recovery businesses accept insurance company checks in payment for towing, recovery, and storage charges. The bill also allows the Board for Towing and Recovery Operators to promulgate regulations specifying additional training or conditions for individuals seeking tow truck authorization documents. The bill, further, exempts from the requirement that tow truck operators have tow truck authorization documents issued by the Board for Towing and Recovery Operators tow trucks that are (i) towing vehicles from origins in another state and are passing through the Commonwealth to destinations outside the Commonwealth, or (ii) towing vehicles from origins in another state to destinations in the Commonwealth, or (iii) not engaged to towed vehicles by physical, mechanical means that cause the towed vehicle to be moved or lifted off the ground. Finally, the bill provides that a person cannot not be refused a license or a tow truck driver authorization document by the Board for Towing and Recovery Operators solely because of a prior criminal conviction, unless the criminal conviction directly relates to the towing and recovery of vehicles and safety of the users of the services offered by such licensee or holder of a tow truck authorization document. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/08/2008 | Committee |
01/08/2008 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083451548 |
01/08/2008 | Referred to Committee on Transportation |
01/17/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1012) |
01/18/2008 | Assigned Transportation sub: 2 |
01/31/2008 | Reported from Transportation with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/31/2008 | Committee substitute printed 083541548-H1 |
02/01/2008 | Read first time |
02/01/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1012H1) |
02/04/2008 | Read second time |
02/04/2008 | Committee substitute agreed to 083541548-H1 |
02/04/2008 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1012H1 |
02/05/2008 | Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) |
02/05/2008 | VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/05/2008 | Communicated to Senate |
02/06/2008 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/06/2008 | Referred to Committee on Transportation |
02/14/2008 | Reported from Transportation with amendment (15-Y 0-N) |
02/18/2008 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
02/19/2008 | Read third time |
02/19/2008 | Reading of amendment waived |
02/19/2008 | Committee amendment agreed to |
02/19/2008 | Reading of amendments waived |
02/19/2008 | Amendments by Senator Watkins agreed to |
02/19/2008 | Engrossed by Senate as amended |
02/19/2008 | Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N) |
02/20/2008 | Placed on Calendar |
02/21/2008 | Passed by for the day |
02/22/2008 | Passed by for the day |
02/25/2008 | Passed by for the day |
02/26/2008 | Senate amendments agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N) |
02/26/2008 | VOTE: --- ADOPTION (95-Y 1-N) |
02/28/2008 | Enrolled |
02/28/2008 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1012ER) |
02/28/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1012ER) |
02/28/2008 | Signed by Speaker |
03/02/2008 | Signed by President |
03/08/2008 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 470 (effective 7/1/08) |
03/14/2008 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) |