Virginia ADAS Disclosure Law Takes Effect July 1, Setting New Compliance Standard

The Virginia auto-glass industry was finalizing its compliance preparations in late June 2026 as the July 1 effective date for HB 312 approached. The push came against a backdrop of expanding ADAS education across the repair industry: the United ADAS Collective began offering on-demand ADAS training courses on June 25 to help technicians master calibration procedures, a resource well suited to shops racing to meet Virginia's new disclosure obligations. HB 312 — which Delegate Karen Carnegie had introduced just five months earlier — was about to take full effect, making Virginia the first state in the country to impose a dedicated statutory ADAS disclosure obligation on glass companies.

The law required Virginia glass shops to inform customers at the point of accepting a job whether their vehicle's ADAS systems — including windshield-mounted cameras, forward collision warning sensors and lane-departure systems — needed recalibration after a windshield replacement. Shops that intended to perform the recalibration had to say so; shops that could not perform it were required to tell customers to take the vehicle elsewhere before driving. After any recalibration attempt, shops were obligated to provide written confirmation of whether the procedure had succeeded.

The law that ultimately took effect was narrower than the original bill: the claim-number requirement and AOB ban had been removed during the legislative process, reflecting the industry's effective advocacy to preserve small-shop operational flexibility. What remained was what many in the industry considered the genuinely consumer-protective core of the NCOIL framework — the obligation to ensure customers understood what their vehicles needed after a windshield replacement.

The Virginia law could become a template for other states seeking a middle-ground approach: imposing ADAS disclosure obligations without the more operationally contentious claim-number or AOB provisions. For shops in states still debating similar bills, the Virginia model was a reference point they could point to when arguing that ADAS disclosure was achievable without the full NCOIL package.

For Virginia shops themselves, compliance required updating customer intake forms, training counter staff to ask the right questions about each vehicle's ADAS configuration and creating a documentation process for post-recalibration written notifications. Trade groups had published template forms that shops could adapt with their own branding and contact information.