republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1021.md

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Bill	Failure to obey highway sign where driver sleeping or resting; prepayable offense.	Provides that a violation of a highway sign where a driver has parked or stopped his vehicle on the shoulder of the highway in order to sleep or rest is a prepayable offense unless such vehicle is parked or stopped in such manner as to impede or render dangerous the shoulder or other portion of the highway.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 1021	Virginia SB 1021 (2017)	bill	Courts Not of Record Highways Bridges and Ferries Motor Vehicles	enacted	George L. Barker	4	23	6	2017-01-04	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/92f0662f-3dee-4ecb-8f0c-9dc1fa4fc0ef	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1021	0f44b9eec074e98b5dcf5335a4633725069f623ba24f022a315223272b62775c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1021 (2017) — Failure to obey highway sign where driver sleeping or resting; prepayable offense.

Provides that a violation of a highway sign where a driver has parked or stopped his vehicle on the shoulder of the highway in order to sleep or rest is a prepayable offense unless such vehicle is parked or stopped in such manner as to impede or render dangerous the shoulder or other portion of the highway.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504) (committee substitute) — source
2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1021ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Floor substitute printed 17105103D-S1 (Barker) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102922D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Transportation — 15–6 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Transportation — 7–6 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed Senate — 21–19 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 6–1 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House — 82–14 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• George L. Barker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102922D introduction
• 2017-01-04 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2017-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-02 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Reading of substitute waived
• 2017-02-03 Floor substitute printed 17105103D-S1 (Barker)
• 2017-02-03 Substitute by Senator Barker agreed to 17105103D-S1
• 2017-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1021S1
• 2017-02-08 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-08 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-02-09 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2017-02-17 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-20 Passed House (82-Y 14-N) passage
• 2017-02-22 Enrolled
• 2017-02-22 Signed by President
• 2017-02-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-23 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
• 2017-02-23 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 504 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92f0662f-3dee-4ecb-8f0c-9dc1fa4fc0ef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).