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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pedestrians; drivers to stop when crossing highway, etc., penalty."
+description: "Drivers to stop for pedestrians; vulnerable road users; penalties. Makes it a traffic infraction if a driver operating a motor vehicle fails to stop for pedestrians and makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor if such traffic infraction results in the serious bodily injury or death of a vulnerable road user lawfully crossing a highway."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 1416"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1416 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Adam P. Ebbin"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-01-15"
+last_action: "2025-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e332479-5d5b-45e4-9df1-c7f70bfb3525"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1416"
+source_hash: "af327a2fd35518a4e2f642e7832a8ffc9463edccb9b4d6283a135690765c98c1"
+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 1416 (2025) — Pedestrians; drivers to stop when crossing highway, etc., penalty.
+
+Drivers to stop for pedestrians; vulnerable road users; penalties. Makes it a traffic infraction if a driver operating a motor vehicle fails to stop for pedestrians and makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor if such traffic infraction results in the serious bodily injury or death of a vulnerable road user lawfully crossing a highway.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1021021.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074600.PDF)
+3. **Courts of Justice Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1033308.PDF)
+4. **Courts of Justice Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1039748.PDF)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1062315.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed House (75-Y 20-N) — **75–20** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 3-N) — **18–3** (pass) · lower
+- Rereferred from Transportation and rereferred to Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-15** Presented and ordered printed 25100411D `introduction`
+- **2025-01-15** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23** Rereferred from Transportation and Rereferred to Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1416)
+- **2025-02-03** Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-03** Committee substitute printed 25106652D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2025-02-04** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-04** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2025-02-04** Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-02-04** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-02-04** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-04** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-07** Placed on Calendar
+- **2025-02-07** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-07** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** Referred from Transportation and referred to Courts of Justice (Voice Vote) `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1416)
+- **2025-02-12** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-14** Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-18** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-19** Passed House (75-Y 20-N) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1416ER) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1416)
+- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled`
+- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 447 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e332479-5d5b-45e4-9df1-c7f70bfb3525`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+