Virginia Senate Bill 368 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 2 2008 - 100% progression
Action: 2008-04-14 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811)

Disregarding signal to stop; death of law-enforcement officer; penalties. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer pursues a person who has disregarded a law-enforcement officer's signal to stop his motor vehicle and drives in willful and wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the law-enforcement vehicle or to endanger people and the law-enforcement officer is killed as a direct and proximate result of the pursuit, the person is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill also increases the penalty for disregarding a signal from a law-enforcement officer to stop or attempting to escape or elude a law-enforcement officer from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 2 misdemeanor. This bill is identical to

Disregarding signal to stop; endangerment of operation of law-enforcement officer, penalty.

Sen. John Watkins [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-04-14		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811)
2008-04-02		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 811 (effective 7/1/08)
2008-03-26		Senate: Signed by President
2008-03-24		House: Signed by Speaker
2008-03-24		Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB368ER)
2008-03-24		Senate: Enrolled
2008-03-07		House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N)
2008-03-07		House: Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
2008-03-07		Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2008-03-07		Senate: Reading of conference report waived
2008-03-06		House: Delegates: Ware, R.L., Cline, Valentine
2008-03-06		House: Conferees appointed by House
2008-03-06		Senate: Senators: Puckett, Watkins, Ticer
2008-03-06		Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
2008-03-06		Senate: Senate acceded to request (39-Y 0-N)
2008-03-06		House: House requested conference committee
2008-03-06		House: House insisted on substitute
2008-03-06		Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 36-N)
2008-03-06		House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (94-Y 5-N)
2008-03-06		House: Passed House with substitute (94-Y 5-N)
2008-03-06		House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB368H1
2008-03-06		House: Committee substitute agreed to 080902348-H1
2008-03-06		House: Read third time
2008-03-05		House: Passed by for the day
2008-03-04		House: Read second time
2008-03-03		House: Committee substitute printed 080902348-H1
2008-02-29		House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (18-Y 1-N)
2008-02-19		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2008-02-19		House: Referred from Transportation by voice vote
2008-02-12		House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
2008-02-12		House: Read first time
2008-02-12		House: Placed on Calendar
2008-02-01		Senate: Communicated to House
2008-02-01		Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2008-01-31		Senate: Printed as engrossed 080837348-ES1
2008-01-31		Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB368ES1
2008-01-31		Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
2008-01-31		Senate: Reading of amendment waived
2008-01-31		Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 080837348-S1
2008-01-31		Senate: Reading of substitute waived
2008-01-31		Senate: Read second time
2008-01-30		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2008-01-29		Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (16-Y 0-N)
2008-01-24		Senate: Committee substitute printed 080837348-S1
2008-01-23		Senate: Rereferred to Finance
2008-01-23		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2008-01-17		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2008-01-14		Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
2008-01-14		Senate: Rereferred from Transportation (11-Y 0-N)
2008-01-08		Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
2008-01-08		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 084500348

HB113 (Same As) 2008-04-14 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0773)

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?081+sum+SB368