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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Passing a stopped school bus; divided highways, access roads, and certain driveways."
+description: "Passing a stopped school bus; divided highways, access roads, and certain driveways. Clarifies that the exemption from the requirement for a driver of a motor vehicle to stop for a stopped school bus if such bus is stopped on the other roadway of a divided highway, on an access road, or on a driveway when the other roadway, access road, or driveway is separated from the roadway on which he is driving by a physical barrier or an unpaved area applies regardless of whether the physical barrier or unpaved area is continuous or segmented when necessary to accommodate an intersection or turning vehicles."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 409"
+citation: "Virginia HB 409 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David A. Reid"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2026-01-12"
+last_action: "2026-04-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1eacf7d-ad9d-43e8-a86e-3ade8fb00309"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB409"
+source_hash: "b4df4124ab6bd69972b9eb806978eaebc75645cfd6ee70fcd4f1bfdb144dc9f8"
+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 HB 409 (2026) — Passing a stopped school bus; divided highways, access roads, and certain driveways.
+
+Passing a stopped school bus; divided highways, access roads, and certain driveways. Clarifies that the exemption from the requirement for a driver of a motor vehicle to stop for a stopped school bus if such bus is stopped on the other roadway of a divided highway, on an access road, or on a driveway when the other roadway, access road, or driveway is separated from the roadway on which he is driving by a physical barrier or an unpaved area applies regardless of whether the physical barrier or unpaved area is continuous or segmented when necessary to accommodate an intersection or turning vehicles.
+
+## 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/1084325.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1216471.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1179653.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Transportation — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage R — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Transportation — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- H VOTE: — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David A. Reid — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102514D `filing, introduction`
+- **2026-01-12** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-19** Assigned HTRAN sub: Highway Safety and Policy `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
+- **2026-01-22** Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-28** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2026-01-29** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-30** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB409)
+- **2026-02-19** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-23** Rules suspended
+- **2026-02-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
+- **2026-02-23** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
+- **2026-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-24** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
+- **2026-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2026-02-26** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB409ER) `passage`
+- **2026-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-26** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB409)
+- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 132 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0132)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1eacf7d-ad9d-43e8-a86e-3ade8fb00309`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+