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type: "Bill"
title: "Driver education programs; instruction concerning traffic stops."
description: "Requires each driver education program in the public school system to include instruction concerning traffic stops, including law-enforcement procedures for traffic stops, appropriate actions to be taken by drivers during traffic stops, and appropriate interactions with law-enforcement officers who initiate traffic stops. The bill requires the Board of Education to collaborate with the Department of State Police in implementing the changes to its driver education program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2290"
citation: "Virginia HB 2290 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Education", "Police", "State"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeion A. Ward"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adb0ddfb-78da-4c7f-9523-9bc37f3c2321"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2290"
source_hash: "a294aeb8fb8cde441fe61046c48ab710cd3bfefb3fcce96ff4e39cc77b1f364d"
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 2290 (2017) — Driver education programs; instruction concerning traffic stops.
Requires each driver education program in the public school system to include instruction concerning traffic stops, including law-enforcement procedures for traffic stops, appropriate actions to be taken by drivers during traffic stops, and appropriate interactions with law-enforcement officers who initiate traffic stops. The bill requires the Board of Education to collaborate with the Department of State Police in implementing the changes to its driver education program.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0300)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0300)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2290ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2290ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103451D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2290)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **201** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **8212** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **954** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **43** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Jeion A. Ward — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Presented and ordered printed 17103451D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House (82-Y 12-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-13** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-13** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-13** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-15** Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 4-N)
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 300 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/adb0ddfb-78da-4c7f-9523-9bc37f3c2321`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).