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SB720Introduced in the Senate

Driver training schools; instructor identification license.

Passed

Introduced by Dave Marsden, District 35

What does this bill do?

Plain-English breakdown

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Official description

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.

Where it stands

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)

April 8, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

3 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

4 recorded votes · each counted separately

House of DelegatesStage: Passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A) · March 10, 2026

99

Yes

0

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

99 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each delegate voted

Bill history

  1. Presented and ordered printed 26102754D

  2. Referred to Committee on Transportation

  3. Reported from Transportation and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)

  4. Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)

  5. Senate committee offered

  6. Committee substitute printed 26107231D-S1

  7. Rules suspended

  8. Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  9. Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)

  10. Passed by for the day

  11. Read second time

  12. Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to

  13. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote)

  14. Read third time and passed Senate Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  15. Placed on Calendar

  16. Read first time

  17. Referred to Committee on Transportation

  18. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB720)

  19. Assigned HTRAN sub: Department of Motor Vehicles

  20. Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)

  21. Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N)

  22. Read second time

  23. Read third time

  24. Passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A)

  25. Enrolled

  26. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB720ER)

  27. Signed by President

  28. Signed by Speaker

  29. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026

  30. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026

  31. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB720)

  32. Approved by Governor-Chapter 521 (effective 7/1/2026)

  33. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0521)

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