SB691: Towing; regulations for those seeking tow truck authorization documents and provisional changes.

Chief Patron

John Watkins (R-10)
Served: 1998–

Progress

	Introduced
	Passed Committee
	Passed House
	Passed Senate
	Signed by Governor
	Became Law

Status

03/14/2008: signed by governor

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01/15/2008 Presented and ordered printed 083829348
01/15/2008 Referred to Committee on Transportation
01/21/2008 Impact statement from DPB (SB691)
01/31/2008 Reported from Transportation with amendments (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/04/2008 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/05/2008 Read second time
02/05/2008 Reading of amendments waived
02/05/2008 Committee amendments agreed to
02/05/2008 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB691E
02/05/2008 Printed as engrossed 083829348-E
02/06/2008 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/06/2008 Communicated to House
02/12/2008 Placed on Calendar
02/12/2008 Read first time
02/12/2008 Referred to Committee on Transportation
02/18/2008 Impact statement from DPB (SB691E)
02/19/2008 Reported from Transportation with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2008 Committee substitute printed 083845348-H1
02/21/2008 Read second time
02/22/2008 Read third time
02/22/2008 Committee substitute agreed to 083845348-H1
02/22/2008 Passed by for the day
02/25/2008 Impact statement from DPB (SB691H1)
02/25/2008 Passed by for the day
02/26/2008 Read third time
02/26/2008 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB691H1
02/26/2008 Passed House with substitute (92-Y 4-N)
02/26/2008 VOTE: --- PASSAGE (92-Y 4-N) (see vote tally)
02/28/2008 House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/03/2008 Enrolled
03/03/2008 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB691ER)
03/03/2008 Impact statement from DPB (SB691ER)
03/03/2008 Signed by Speaker
03/04/2008 Signed by President
03/12/2008 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
03/12/2008 Placed on Calendar
03/13/2008 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (36-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/13/2008 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (89-Y 6-N)
03/13/2008 VOTE: --- ADOPTION (89-Y 6-N) (see vote tally)
03/13/2008 G Governor's recommendation adopted
03/13/2008 Reenrolled
03/13/2008 Reenrolled bill text (SB691ER2)
03/13/2008 Signed by President as reenrolled
03/13/2008 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
03/13/2008 Enacted, Chapter 647 (effective 7/1/08)
03/14/2008 G Approved by Governor-Chapter 647 (effective 7/1/08)
03/18/2008 G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647)

Summary

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.

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Video

Votes were cast on this bill on the following dates for which Richmond Sunlight has video: 01/21/2008, 01/21/2008, 02/04/2008, 02/04/2008, 02/05/2008, 02/06/2008, 02/06/2008, 02/12/2008, 02/18/2008, 02/18/2008, 02/20/2008, 02/21/2008, 02/22/2008, 02/22/2008, 02/25/2008, 02/26/2008, 02/26/2008, 02/28/2008 and 02/28/2008.

Comments

Billie Bob the Roving Towtruck Driver writes:

I'd just like to thank Sen Watkins for including the following provision in his bill:

"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"

See, ever since my relatives and I got convicted of kidnapping, sodomy, assault and the rest of that stuff, the only work we've been able to get was playing ourselves in the cast of Deliverance.

Now, with Sen Watkins help, we'll soon be able to drive roving towtrucks in homeowner associations all over Virginia!

Is this a great country or what?

Billie Bob the (soon to be) Roving Towtruck Driver

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