Virginia Senate Bill 277 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-03 - Continued to 2023 in Transportation (11-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Department of Motor Vehicles; Virginia Community Policing Act; race and ethnicity data. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to require an applicant for an original driver's license, driver privilege card, special identification card with or without a photograph, and identification privilege card or the renewal or reissue of such license or card to provide his race and ethnicity. The bill prohibits displaying any such data in a readable form on a credential issued by the Department and requires such data to be encoded in the barcode on the back of such license or card. The bill prohibits the release of such data to any entity other than the Department of State Police to be used exclusively for the Virginia Community Policing Act Database. Department of Motor Vehicles; Virginia Community Policing Act; race and ethnicity data. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to require an applicant for an original driver's license, driver privilege card, special identification card with or without a photograph, and identification privilege card or the renewal or reissue of such license or card to provide his race and ethnicity. The bill prohibits displaying any such data in a readable form on a credential issued by the Department and requires such data to be encoded in the barcode on the back of such license or card. The bill prohibits the release of such data to any entity other than the Department of State Police to be used exclusively for the Virginia Community Policing Act Database.

DMV; applicants for driver's licenses, etc., to provide his race & ethnicity.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

2022-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2023 in Transportation (11-Y 0-N) (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-03	Senate	Continued to 2023 in Transportation (11-Y 0-N)
2022-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Transportation
2022-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104166D

SB277 (Carry Over) 2022-02-03 - Continued to 2023 in Transportation (11-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
46	2	323	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	333.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	342	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	345	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	345.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB277
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB277+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB277F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S11V0042+SB0277