Virginia Senate Bill 938 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 23 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Lights on other vehicles; animal-drawn vehicles. Clarifies that the existing requirements for vehicles to display white lights in the front and red lights in the rear or approved reflectors applies to animal-drawn vehicles. The bill also provides that such lights may be battery-operated. Lights on other vehicles; animal-drawn vehicles. Clarifies that the existing requirements for vehicles to display white lights in the front and red lights in the rear or approved reflectors applies to animal-drawn vehicles. The bill also provides that such lights may be battery-operated.

Animal-drawn vehicles; lights on other vehicles, reflectors.

Sen. Frank Ruff [R]

2023-02-22 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-21 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-16 - House - House: Reported from Transportation with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-14 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-01-19 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0324)
2023-03-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 324 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-13	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
2023-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2023-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB938ER)
2023-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2023-02-22	Senate	Title replaced 23106958D-H1
2023-02-22	Senate	House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-21	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
2023-02-21	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2023-02-21	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB938H1
2023-02-21	House	Committee substitute agreed to 23106958D-H1
2023-02-21	House	Read third time
2023-02-20	House	Read second time
2023-02-16	House	Committee substitute printed 23106958D-H1
2023-02-16	House	Reported from Transportation with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2023-02-14	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (9-Y 0-N)
2023-02-08	House	Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 Department of Motor Vehicles
2023-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Transportation
2023-02-08	House	Read first time
2023-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-01-25	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2023-01-24	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2023-01-23	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2023-01-19	Senate	Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N)
2023-01-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Transportation
2023-01-06	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102557D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
46	2	1016	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB938
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB938+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB938H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB938ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0324+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23106741A.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23106958D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB938F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB938FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB938FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S11V0008+SB0938
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0084SB0938+SB0938
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0108SB0938+SB0938
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H1901V0023+SB0938
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H19V0112+SB0938
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2067+SB0938
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0751SB0938+SB0938