---
type: "Bill"
title: "Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person."
description: "Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person of rights. Provides that if a police officer or a member of any sheriff's department fails to advise a person of his rights to refuse a preliminary breath test, any preliminary breath test sample shall not be admissible by the Commonwealth in any motion to suppress for the purpose of determining probable cause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 95"
citation: "Virginia SB 95 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2024-01-02"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c069155-92ec-4d3c-b12d-33ce8c51e5a8"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB95"
source_hash: "20cd74fbbfa444960140284c0f44312655237e6cdf288b74ba426f8b105986b8"
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 95 (2024) — Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person.

Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person of rights. Provides that if a police officer or a member of any sheriff's department fails to advise a person of his rights to refuse a preliminary breath test, any preliminary breath test sample shall not be admissible by the Commonwealth in any motion to suppress for the purpose of determining probable cause.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0759** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0759)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102057D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB95)
3. **Printed as engrossed 24102057D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB95E)
4. **SB95ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB95ER)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N) — **87–11** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Referred from Public Safety — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102057D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-02** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
- **2024-02-05** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-02-07** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** Reading of amendments waived
- **2024-02-09** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-09** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB95E
- **2024-02-09** Printed as engrossed 24102057D-E
- **2024-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-09** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Referred from Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-23** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-28** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2024-02-28** Passed House with amendments (88-Y 11-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-01** House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-06** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-06** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB95ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-06** 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`
- **2024-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 759 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c069155-92ec-4d3c-b12d-33ce8c51e5a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).