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| Bill | Doctor of medicine, etc.; reporting disabilities of drivers to DMV, not subject to civil liability. | Provides that any doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry or any nurse practitioner, physician assistant, optometrist, physical therapist, or clinical psychologist who reports to the Department of Motor Vehicles the existence, or probable existence, of a mental or physical disability or infirmity of any person licensed to operate a motor vehicle that the reporting individual believes affects such person's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely is not subject to civil liability or deemed to have violated the practitioner-patient privilege unless he has acted in bad faith or with malicious intent. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 1514 | Virginia HB 1514 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 1514 (2017) — Doctor of medicine, etc.; reporting disabilities of drivers to DMV, not subject to civil liability.
Provides that any doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry or any nurse practitioner, physician assistant, optometrist, physical therapist, or clinical psychologist who reports to the Department of Motor Vehicles the existence, or probable existence, of a mental or physical disability or infirmity of any person licensed to operate a motor vehicle that the reporting individual believes affects such person's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely is not subject to civil liability or deemed to have violated the practitioner-patient privilege unless he has acted in bad faith or with malicious intent. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0712) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1514ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 17104297D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103034D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate — 37–3 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 95–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — 11–4 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 9–1 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
- Rereferred from Courts of Justice — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2016-12-21 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103034D
introduction - 2016-12-21 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-01-13 Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
referral-committee - 2017-01-31 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-02-01 Passed by for the day
- 2017-02-02 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-02 Committee substitute agreed to 17104297D-H1
- 2017-02-02 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1514H1
- 2017-02-03 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-02-06 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-02-08 Rereferred to Education and Health
referral-committee - 2017-02-20 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-23 Enrolled
- 2017-02-23 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-24 Signed by President
- 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 2017-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 712 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c531459a-22e5-497c-b71f-5fefb21a96f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).