| VA | HB15 | Pass | Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076) |
| VA | SB150 | Pass | Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0077) |
| VA | SB205 | Pass | Toll invoices; mail. Authorizes the use of a trackable correspondence equivalent to certified mail for sending invoices for unpaid tolls to a vehicle owner prior to the Department of Motor Vehicles placing a registration stop on such vehicle due to u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068) |
| VA | HB1109 | Pass | Toll invoices; mail. Authorizes the use of a trackable correspondence equivalent to certified mail for sending invoices for unpaid tolls to a vehicle owner prior to the Department of Motor Vehicles placing a registration stop on such vehicle due to u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0067) |
| VA | HB1106 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; independent dealer-operator recertification; exam. Permits the recertification of independent dealer-operators by passing an examination administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Current law provides that such recertifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0084) |
| VA | HB1107 | Pass | Motor Vehicle Dealer Board; examination costs. Authorizes the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board to establish the cost of an examination of licensee records, which existing law requires the licensee to pay if such examination shows a violation of law or orde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0086) |
| VA | SB452 | Pass | Motor vehicle dealers; independent dealer-operator recertification; exam. Permits the recertification of independent dealer-operators by passing an examination administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Current law provides that such recertifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0085) |
| VA | HB1409 | Pass | Crash reports; contracted service providers. Authorizes law-enforcement agencies to utilize a contracted service provider to forward crash reports electronically to the Department of Motor Vehicles and manage or disseminate copies of certain crash re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0079) |
| VA | SB732 | Pass | Crash reports; contracted service providers. Authorizes law-enforcement agencies to utilize a contracted service provider to forward crash reports electronically to the Department of Motor Vehicles and manage or disseminate copies of certain crash re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0080) |
| VA | HB1469 | Pass | Venue; obtaining documents from the Department of Motor Vehicles when not entitled thereto; penalty. Provides that the venue for a violation of the offense of obtaining documents from the Department of Motor Vehicles (the Department) when not entitle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) |
| VA | SB616 | Pass | Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) |
| VA | SB535 | Engross
Sine Die | School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB657 | Engross
Sine Die | Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter to, while...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (7-Y 7-N) |
| VA | HB1077 | Engross
Sine Die | Exception to stopping requirement; bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or motorized skateboard or scooter. Authorizes the person operating a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (5-Y 9-N) |
| VA | HB1266 | Engross
Sine Die | Traffic; bicycles and certain other vehicles. Clarifies that the roadways on which bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, motorized skateboards or scooters, or mopeds are exempt from the requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Transportation (6-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB884 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger car exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on any highway; driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facility, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1263 | Engross
Sine Die | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB884 | Engross
Prefile | Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger car exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on any highway; driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facility, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1263 | Engross
Prefile | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicle safety inspection approval sticker; persons on active duty. Authorizes motor vehicles owned and operated by persons on active duty with the United States Armed Forces stationed outside the Commonwealth at the time the inspection expires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Window tint; emergency vehicles. Authorizes window tinting on all emergency medical services vehicles and vehicles used to fight fire, including publicly owned state forest warden vehicles. Current law authorizes tinting on the rear and rear side win...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB180 | Intro
Sine Die | Radar detectors. Authorizes the use and sale of devices and mechanisms to detect a radar, laser, or other device or mechanism employed by law-enforcement personnel to measure the speed of motor vehicles on the highways of the Commonwealth for law-enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Expired vehicle registration; penalties. Establishes a tiered fine system for expired vehicle registrations. The bill establishes a fine of $25 if the registration has been expired for less than one year on the date the citation is issued and a fine ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana presumption; driving or operating a motor vehicle, etc., while intoxicated; penalty. Establishes a presumption of intoxication if a person has a blood concentration equal to or greater than 0.004 milligrams of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Towing fees; Commonwealth Trespass Towing Rate-Setting Advisory Panel established. Creates the Commonwealth Trespass Towing Rate-Setting Advisory Panel to advise the General Assembly and the Governor on statewide trespass towing fees and related anci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Photo speed monitoring devices; pole-mounted speed display sign. Requires a pole-mounted speed display sign, defined in the bill, to be placed between 250 and 1,000 feet from any photo speed monitoring device that is in use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | School crossing zones. Expands the definition of "school crossing zone" to include areas surrounding schools where the presence of students reasonably requires a special warning to motorists and provides that the term "school" includes public institu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB753 | Intro
Sine Die | Smoking with a minor under the age of 15 present; penalty. Creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person who smokes, as defined in the bill, in the presence of a minor under the age of 15 and directly exposes such minor to secondhand smoke. The bill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB883 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicle exhaust systems; operation in certain locations. Expands the locations for which operation of a motor vehicle, moped, or motorized skateboard or foot-scooter that does not comply with requirements for mufflers and a vehicle that does not comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Public Safety Committee |
| VA | HB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle safety inspections; frequency. Extends from 12 months to 24 months the period for which a vehicle safety inspection is valid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Photo speed monitoring device; civil penalty; default process. Establishes a default process for the collection of civil penalties from residents of the Commonwealth who fail to respond to a summons for a speed violation issued based on evidence coll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB850 | Intro
Sine Die | Operation of a motor vehicle upon the highways of the Commonwealth after conviction; petition procedures. States that upon a conviction for involuntary manslaughter as a result of driving under the influence or maiming as a result of driving under th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Golf carts and utility vehicles; certain rural communities. Authorizes localities located within the Rural Coastal Virginia Community Enhancement Authority to authorize by ordinance the operation of golf carts or utility vehicles on designated public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Marijuana presumption; driving or operating a motor vehicle, etc., while intoxicated; penalty. Establishes a presumption of intoxication if a person has a blood concentration equal to or greater than 0.003 milligrams of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB1213 | Intro
Sine Die | Special license plates; military service; prepaid applications. Decreases from 450 to 150 the number of prepaid applications required for the consideration, development, and issuance of a special license plate when such special license plate relates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing citations; vehicle equipment. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating with defective and unsafe equipment and removes the accompanying exclusionary provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Motor vehicles; improper tinting films, signs, decals, and stickers; issuing citations. Removes the provisions that prohibit a law-enforcement officer from lawfully stopping a motor vehicle for violations related to improper tinting films, signs, dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| VA | SB712 | Engross
Sine Die | Release of hunting dogs; state highway or right-of-way. Creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for the intentional release of hunting dogs on a Department of Transportation right-of-way or on a highway owned or maintained by the Department of Transportation t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Defeated by Senate (20-Y 20-N) |
| VA | SB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Careless driving and infliction of injury or death on vulnerable road users; penalty. Defines driving in a careless manner and distracted manner for purposes of the Class 1 misdemeanor of operating a motor vehicle in a careless or distracted manner s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (6-Y 8-N) |
| VA | HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonbinary sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option of "male," "female," or "nonbinary" when designating the applicant's sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB502 | Intro
Prefile | Nonbinary sex or gender designation option. Requires all forms or applications to offer any applicant the option of "male," "female," or "nonbinary" when designating the applicant's sex or gender. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Installation of crosswalks; waiving certain requirement. Authorizes the Department of Transportation, when determining the need for a crosswalk within a community subject to the Property Owners' Association Act, to waive any requirement that a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB142 | Intro
Prefile | Installation of crosswalks; waiving certain requirement. Authorizes the Department of Transportation, when determining the need for a crosswalk within a community subject to the Property Owners' Association Act, to waive any requirement that a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB319 | Intro
Sine Die | Firearms instructors and safety programs; National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association. Removes references to the National Rifle Association (the NRA) and the United States Concealed Carry Association from the Code that al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB680 | Intro
Sine Die | Manufactured homes; conversion to real property. Creates a process by which a manufactured home with a security interest may be converted to real property and provides requirements and procedures for doing so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB714 | Intro
Sine Die | Vehicle exhaust systems; inspection and administrative fee. Prohibits passenger vehicle exhaust systems from emitting noise in excess of 95 decibels in Planning District 8 on a highway; any driveway or premises of a church, school, recreational facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB319 | Intro
Prefile | Firearms instructors and safety programs; National Rifle Association and United States Concealed Carry Association. Removes references to the National Rifle Association (the NRA) and the United States Concealed Carry Association from the Code that al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
