Bill Text: VA SB768 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reckless driving; exceeding speed limit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-08 - Left in Courts of Justice [SB768 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2016-SB768-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 768 Offered January 22, 2016 A BILL to amend and reenact §46.2-862 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reckless driving; exceeding speed limit. ---------- Patron-- Suetterlein ---------- Referred to Committee on Transportation ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §46.2-862 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§46.2-862. Exceeding speed limit.

A person shall be guilty of reckless driving who drives a motor vehicle on the highways in the Commonwealth (i) at a speed of twenty 20 miles per hour or more in excess of the applicable maximum speed limit or (ii) in excess of eighty 85 miles per hour regardless of the applicable maximum speed limit.