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2008 SESSION
HB 1012 Towing; regulations for those seeking tow truck authorization documents and provisional changes.
Introduced by: Timothy D. Hugo | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Towing. Allows tow trucks to use crossovers on controlled-access highways when providing a public safety towing and recovery service under the direction of a law-enforcement agency. 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"). 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. This bill incorporates HB 581 and is identical to SB 691.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083451548 pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/08 House: Committee substitute printed 083541548-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/28/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1012ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/14/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 083451548
- 01/08/08 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/18/08 House: Assigned Transportation sub: 2
- 01/31/08 House: Reported from Transportation with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/08 House: Committee substitute printed 083541548-H1
- 02/01/08 House: Read first time
- 02/04/08 House: Read second time
- 02/04/08 House: Committee substitute agreed to 083541548-H1
- 02/04/08 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1012H1
- 02/05/08 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/08 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/08 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/06/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/14/08 Senate: Reported from Transportation with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/08 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/19/08 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/19/08 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/19/08 Senate: Amendments by Senator Watkins agreed to
- 02/19/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/19/08 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/08 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/08 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/22/08 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/25/08 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/26/08 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (95-Y 1-N)
- 02/26/08 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (95-Y 1-N)
- 02/28/08 House: Enrolled
- 02/28/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1012ER)
- 02/28/08 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/02/08 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/08/08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 470 (effective 7/1/08)
- 03/14/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470)