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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 | SB 1024 | Virginia SB 1024 (2017) |
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Virginia SB 1024 (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 (CHAP0720) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1024ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104028D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101500D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 9–5 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — 28–12 (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
- House amendment agreed to by Senate — 32–8 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101500D
introduction - 2017-01-04 Referred to Committee on Education and Health
referral-committee - 2017-01-23 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-01-23 Reading of substitute waived
- 2017-01-23 Committee substitute agreed to 17104028D-S1
- 2017-01-23 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1024S1
- 2017-01-31 Placed on Calendar
- 2017-01-31 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
referral-committee - 2017-02-10 Referred from Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
- 2017-02-10 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2017-02-10 Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
referral-committee - 2017-02-21 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-22 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-22 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2017-02-22 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2017-02-22 Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage - 2017-03-07 Enrolled
- 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-03-10 Signed by President
- 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 2017-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 720 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16fd4081-3294-4c9b-8c68-b926752f6a98. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).