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| Bill | Emergency vehicles, privately owned volunteer; exemptions and requirements. | Clarifies that the current limit of no more than two flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning lights applies to light units rather than individual lights on a vehicle owned by a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer EMS agency or a police chaplain. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 1785 | Virginia HB 1785 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 1785 (2017) — Emergency vehicles, privately owned volunteer; exemptions and requirements.
Clarifies that the current limit of no more than two flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning lights applies to light units rather than individual lights on a vehicle owned by a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer EMS agency or a police chaplain.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0244) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1785ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 17104560D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100933D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Transportation — 12–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100933D
introduction - 2017-01-09 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2017-01-13 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1
referral-committee - 2017-01-27 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-01-30 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-01-30 Committee substitute agreed to 17104560D-H1
- 2017-01-30 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1785H1
- 2017-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-02-01 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2017-02-13 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-15 Enrolled
- 2017-02-15 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-17 Signed by President
- 2017-02-17 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- 2017-02-17 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- 2017-02-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 244 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ffb4dc59-71cd-4524-b3be-2abc8adfce6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).