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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Emergency medical services vehicles; temporary permit."
+description: "Provides that a temporary permit for an emergency medical services vehicle that does not meet required standards is valid for a period of 90 days from the end of the month of issue. Under current law, such permit is valid for a period not to exceed 60 days."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 304"
+citation: "Virginia SB 304 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Emergency Services and Vehicles", "Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David W. Marsden"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2018-01-08"
+last_action: "2018-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba832987-6c62-40e7-ad36-96a47aead827"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB304"
+source_hash: "6ae7f33f8f79c499ed4a68e596bdc19b0f173ce277bdc2a7161bd53b8f3a613f"
+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 SB 304 (2018) — Emergency medical services vehicles; temporary permit.
+
+Provides that a temporary permit for an emergency medical services vehicle that does not meet required standards is valid for a period of 90 days from the end of the month of issue. Under current law, such permit is valid for a period not to exceed 60 days.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB304ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB304ER)
+2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102350D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB304)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- House amendment agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David W. Marsden — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102350D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-15** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-16** Passed by for the day
+- **2018-01-23** Placed on Calendar
+- **2018-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2018-02-20** Engrossed by House as amended
+- **2018-02-20** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
+- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
+- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 279 (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/ba832987-6c62-40e7-ad36-96a47aead827`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+