---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency medical services vehicles; temporary permit."
description: "Provides that a temporary permit for an emergency medical services vehicle that does not meet required standards is valid for a period of 90 days from the end of the month of issue. Under current law, such permit is valid for a period not to exceed 60 days."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 304"
citation: "Virginia SB 304 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Services and Vehicles", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David W. Marsden"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba832987-6c62-40e7-ad36-96a47aead827"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB304"
source_hash: "6ae7f33f8f79c499ed4a68e596bdc19b0f173ce277bdc2a7161bd53b8f3a613f"
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 304 (2018) — Emergency medical services vehicles; temporary permit.

Provides that a temporary permit for an emergency medical services vehicle that does not meet required standards is valid for a period of 90 days from the end of the month of issue. Under current law, such permit is valid for a period not to exceed 60 days.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB304ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB304ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102350D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB304)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- House amendment agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David W. Marsden — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102350D `introduction`
- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Passed by for the day
- **2018-01-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2018-02-20** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2018-02-20** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 279 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba832987-6c62-40e7-ad36-96a47aead827`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).