SB 595 — Mechanics and storage liens; vehicle data.
VA 20261 session
Mechanics and storage liens; abandoned vehicles; vehicle records. Removes the requirement that the Department of Motor Vehicles, when searching for owner or lienholder information for a vehicle titled in another jurisdiction for (i) the enforcement of a mechanic's or storage lien or (ii) determining ownership of an abandoned vehicle, ascertain such information by contacting the other jurisdiction. The bill retains the requirement that the Department ascertain such information upon initiation of a search by the bailee or person in possession of an abandoned vehicle.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (1)
- Bill DeSteph (R, VA) — sponsor
Action timeline (43)
- · senate · S4020 —
- · senate · S1101 —
- · senate · S8500 —
- · senate · S1105 —
- · senate · S4150 —
- · senate · S4140 —
- · senate · S4160 —
- · senate · S4150 —
- · senate · S4160 —
- · senate · S4160 —
- · senate · S4120 —
- · senate · S4600 —
- · senate · S8123 —
- · senate · S4641 —
- · senate · S4160 —
- · senate · S4130 —
- · senate · S4190 —
- · senate · S4200 —
- · senate · S4420 —
- · senate · S4600 —
- · senate · S4400 —
- · senate · S4603 —
- · senate · S5000 —
- · senate · S8500 —
- · house · H5220 —
- · house · H4110 —
- · house · H1901 —
- · house · H1912 —
- · house · H1916 —
- · house · H1905 —
- · house · H4120 —
- · house · H4130 —
- · house · H5100 —
- · senate · S5610 —
- · senate · S5601 —
- · senate · S8500 —
- · house · H5620 —
- · senate · S5620 —
- · senate · S7010 —
- · G7010 —
- · G7050 —
- · G9998 —
- · G9998 —
Text versions (0)
No text versions on file yet — same ingest as the action timeline populates these. Each version has direct links to the XML / HTML / PDF at govinfo.gov.
Bill text (extracted)
Amendments
Congressional Research Service briefs (0)
CRS reports that cite this bill in their relatedMaterials — what Congress was reading on the topic. Click any report for its summary, formats, and bill-citation walk.
No CRS reports cite this bill yet.
Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bill DeSteph (R, state_upper VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no