Virginia Senate Bill 762 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Passed on March 26 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Emergency vehicles proceeding past red lights. Provides that emergency vehicles proceeding past any steady or flashing red signals, traffic lights, stop signs, or other devices indicating moving traffic shall stop, must flash emergency lights and either (i) sound a siren, exhaust whistle, or air horn designed to give automatically intermittent signals or (ii) yield right-of-way or, if required for safety, bring the vehicle to a complete stop before proceeding with due regard to the safety of persons and property.

Emergency vehicles; proceeding past red lights.

Sen. John Edwards [D]	Sen. Janet Howell [D]	Sen. Louise Lucas [D]	Sen. Henry Marsh [D]
Sen. Linda Puller [D]	Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]	Sen. Patricia Ticer [D]

2011-02-24 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N) (Y: 38 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-21 - House - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-18 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 1-N) (Y: 9 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-01-13 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Transportation (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-26		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)
2011-03-26		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 629 (effective 7/1/11)
2011-03-06		Senate: Signed by President
2011-03-03		House: Signed by Speaker
2011-03-03		Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB762ER)
2011-03-03		Senate: Enrolled
2011-02-24		Senate: Title replaced 11105458D-H1
2011-02-24		Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
2011-02-24		House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
2011-02-24		House: Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2011-02-24		House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
2011-02-24		House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2011-02-24		House: Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2011-02-24		House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB762H1
2011-02-24		House: Committee substitute agreed to 11105458D-H1
2011-02-24		House: Read third time
2011-02-23		House: Read second time
2011-02-21		House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
2011-02-21		House: Committee substitute printed 11105458D-H1
2011-02-18		House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 1-N)
2011-02-10		House: Assigned Courts sub: #1 Criminal
2011-02-09		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2011-02-09		House: Read first time
2011-02-09		House: Placed on Calendar
2011-02-08		Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2011-02-07		Senate: Read second time and engrossed
2011-02-04		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2011-02-02		Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
2011-01-18		Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2011-01-13		Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
2011-01-13		Senate: Rereferred from Transportation (13-Y 0-N)
2010-12-07		Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
2010-12-07		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11100974D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
46	2	920	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+SB762
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB762+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB762H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SB762ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0629+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+S11V0017+SB0762
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+S03V0138+SB0762
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+SV0241SB0762+SB0762
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+SV0292SB0762+SB0762
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+H0801V0182+SB0762
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+H08V0875+SB0762
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+HV1366+SB0762
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+HV1413+SB0762
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+vot+SV0729SB0762+SB0762