---
type: "Bill"
title: "Careless driving; vulnerable road users."
description: "Careless driving; vulnerable road users. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he operates a vehicle in a careless or distracted manner and causes the death or serious bodily injury of a vulnerable road user. Current law only imposes the penalty if such careless or distracted operation causes serious bodily injury to the vulnerable road user. The bill also allows a court to suspend the driver's license or restrict the driver's license of a person convicted of careless driving for up to six months. This bill is identical to SB 247."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 920"
citation: "Virginia HB 920 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry G. Kilgore"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/073b01d7-48d6-4e60-9066-c1ed12075dd0"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB920"
source_hash: "4db53f74871e797bbcd67779ca06c07a149921d0c82ae475c547429c608e0b7e"
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 920 (2022) — Careless driving; vulnerable road users.

Careless driving; vulnerable road users. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he operates a vehicle in a careless or distracted manner and causes the death or serious bodily injury of a vulnerable road user. Current law only imposes the penalty if such careless or distracted operation causes serious bodily injury to the vulnerable road user. The bill also allows a court to suspend the driver's license or restrict the driver's license of a person convicted of careless driving for up to six months. This bill is identical to SB 247.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0506** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0506)
2. **HB920ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB920ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103904D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB920)
4. **Printed as engrossed 22103904D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB920E)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103904D `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 Highway Safety and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-26** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (HB920)
- **2022-02-01** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-04** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-02-04** Engrossed by House as amended HB920E
- **2022-02-04** Printed as engrossed 22103904D-E
- **2022-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (HB920E)
- **2022-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Enrolled
- **2022-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-02-25** Signed by President
- **2022-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB920ER)
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- **2022-03-09** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 506 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/073b01d7-48d6-4e60-9066-c1ed12075dd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).