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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicles, certain; flashing red or red and white warning lights."
+description: "Allows vehicles of the National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) to utilize flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights when responding to an emergency."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 563"
+citation: "Virginia HB 563 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hyland F. \"Buddy\" Fowler, Jr."]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-08"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e436115d-00c4-4074-a765-db73a4092858"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB563"
+source_hash: "3393827ba11fb8124713e10099eb51ad532ab964ca34af727c0f683562598d28"
+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 563 (2018) — Motor vehicles, certain; flashing red or red and white warning lights.
+
+Allows vehicles of the National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) to utilize flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights when responding to an emergency.
+
+## 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 (HB563ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB563ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102712D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB563)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — primary (person)
+- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
+- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
+- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102712D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-16** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-01** 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 64 (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/e436115d-00c4-4074-a765-db73a4092858`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+