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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Golf carts and utility vehicles on public highways; equine events."
+description: "Authorizes the use of golf carts and utility vehicles to cross a one-lane or two-lane highway from one portion to another of a venue hosting an equine event, provided that the crossing occurs on the same day as the equine event, occurs in a temporary traffic control zone with a speed limit of no more than 35 miles per hour, and is monitored and controlled by a uniformed law-enforcement officer."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 114"
+citation: "Virginia HB 114 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Highways", "Bridges and Ferries", "Motor Vehicles", "Sporting Exhibitions", "Events and Facilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-12-15"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f04079c1-6916-42fe-8be4-e8471e94b000"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB114"
+source_hash: "5bef9797d716f2be48ab0fb8739ac3e1d7034a8a33a68ca0d65bbe9318afbf0a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 114 (2018) — Golf carts and utility vehicles on public highways; equine events.
+
+Authorizes the use of golf carts and utility vehicles to cross a one-lane or two-lane highway from one portion to another of a venue hosting an equine event, provided that the crossing occurs on the same day as the equine event, occurs in a temporary traffic control zone with a speed limit of no more than 35 miles per hour, and is monitored and controlled by a uniformed law-enforcement officer.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB114ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB114ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100927D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB114)
+3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18100927D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB114E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **39–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
+- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-15** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100927D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-15** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-16** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-02** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2018-02-02** Engrossed by House as amended HB114E
+- **2018-02-02** Printed as engrossed 18100927D-E
+- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f04079c1-6916-42fe-8be4-e8471e94b000`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+