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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicles, certain; use of handheld personal communication devices."
+description: "Motor vehicles, certain; use of handheld personal communication devices."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 995"
+citation: "Virginia SB 995 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Marsden"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-06"
+last_action: "2023-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9129e3c-fd10-461c-a557-44f76a8be2db"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB995"
+source_hash: "c040fabfd32842c90664bfbeaac4f753eb8f75815a174f3a14339f544cd31df5"
+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 995 (2023) — Motor vehicles, certain; use of handheld personal communication devices.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0558** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0558)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102526D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB995)
+3. **SB995ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB995ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation (13-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Marsden — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102526D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-11** Impact statement from DPB (SB995)
+- **2023-01-26** Reported from Transportation (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-09** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-14** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-14** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-16** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB995ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-02-16** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB995ER)
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 558 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0558)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9129e3c-fd10-461c-a557-44f76a8be2db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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