Virginia Senate Bill 539 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-14 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

License plate readers; penalties. Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owners or other responsible non-law-enforcement entity to operate a data trust, defined in the bill, to store the data collected by a license plate reader and requires any such law-enforcement agency to apply to the data trust for access to such data. The bill limits the use of license plate readers to scanning, detecting, and identifying license plate numbers for the purpose of identifying vehicles involved in certain crimes.

License plate readers; requirements for use by law-enforcement agencies, penalties.

Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]

Sen. Saddam Salim [D]

2024-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Transportation with substitute (9-Y 5-N) (Y: 9 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-14	Senate	Left in Courts of Justice
2024-02-08	Senate	Rereferred to Courts of Justice
2024-02-08	Senate	Committee substitute printed 24107426D-S1
2024-02-08	Senate	Reported from Transportation with substitute (9-Y 5-N)
2024-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Transportation
2024-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103148D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	5517	(n/a)	See Bill Text
33	2	210	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB539
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB539+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB539S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24107426D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB539F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S11V0041+SB0539