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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Headlights; aftermarket modifications, blue lights."
+description: "Headlights; aftermarket modifications, blue lights."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 855"
+citation: "Virginia SB 855 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Spruill"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2022-12-30"
+last_action: "2023-03-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27e93d50-a7d9-4318-a139-1cb52b838369"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB855"
+source_hash: "acee800ea5c03f36e0bf931aadcf44378dd73f36db963c599ebfa02faee9153f"
+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 855 (2023) — Headlights; aftermarket modifications, blue lights.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0689** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0689)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101439D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB855)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 23101439D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB855E)
+4. **SB855ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB855ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Transportation with amendments (12-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (87-Y 11-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Spruill — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-12-30** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101439D `filing, introduction`
+- **2022-12-30** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-19** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-01-19** Reported from Transportation with amendments (12-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-24** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2023-01-24** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-01-24** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB855E
+- **2023-01-24** Printed as engrossed 23101439D-E
+- **2023-01-25** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB855E)
+- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-16** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-21** Passed by for the day
+- **2023-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-22** Passed House (87-Y 11-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-22** VOTE: Passage (87-Y 11-N) `passage`
+- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB855ER) `passage`
+- **2023-03-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB855ER)
+- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 689 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-27** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0689)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27e93d50-a7d9-4318-a139-1cb52b838369`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+