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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Warning light units, certain; increases number of units person may equip on one vehicle, etc."
+description: "Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him. This bill is identical to HB 15."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 150"
+citation: "Virginia SB 150 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David R. Suetterlein"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-05"
+last_action: "2024-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9fa81f3-ad7f-432c-8aa5-4e7c484e7079"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB150"
+source_hash: "c5a27249f3fa8fe6956de151dfc22d703d47bf6f74e337c45ae9415a465b054b"
+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 150 (2024) — Warning light units, certain; increases number of units person may equip on one vehicle, etc.
+
+Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him. This bill is identical to HB 15.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0077** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0077)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103770D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB150)
+3. **SB150ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB150ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David R. Suetterlein — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103770D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-18** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB150)
+- **2024-01-24** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-22** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-27** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-27** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-27** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-04** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB150ER) `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB150ER)
+- **2024-03-04** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 77 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-14** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0077)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9fa81f3-ad7f-432c-8aa5-4e7c484e7079`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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