Virginia Senate Bill 1466 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-01-14 - Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Unattended children in motor vehicles; penalty. Provides that any person responsible for the care of a child who leaves an unattended child in a motor vehicle where (i) the child's health, safety, and well-being are at risk or (ii) the vehicle's engine is on or running is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill authorizes any law-enforcement officer who observes or is alerted to the existence of an unattended child to use whatever means are reasonably necessary to protect the child and defines "unattended child" as a child four years of age or younger who has been left in a motor vehicle by the person responsible for his care when such person is unable to continuously observe the child, unless a person 12 years of age or older is physically present in the motor vehicle with the child.

Unattended children in motor vehicles; penalty.

Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

2019-01-14 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N) (Y: 11 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-14	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N)
2019-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100849D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	371.1:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1466
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1466+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S03V0048+SB1466