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| Bill | Driver's license or learner's permit; issuance, minimum standards for vision tests. | Increases the minimum visual acuity an applicant must possess for issuance of a driver's license or learner's permit from a field of 100 degrees of horizontal vision in one or both eyes to a field of 110 degrees of horizontal vision in one or both eyes. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | SB 1229 | Virginia SB 1229 (2017) |
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Virginia SB 1229 (2017) — Driver's license or learner's permit; issuance, minimum standards for vision tests.
Increases the minimum visual acuity an applicant must possess for issuance of a driver's license or learner's permit from a field of 100 degrees of horizontal vision in one or both eyes to a field of 110 degrees of horizontal vision in one or both eyes. 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 (CHAP0279) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1229ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101110D (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Printed as engrossed 17101110D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- House amendment agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Siobhan S. Dunnavant — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101110D
introduction - 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2017-02-06 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-06 Reading of amendment waived
- 2017-02-06 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2017-02-06 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1229E
- 2017-02-06 Printed as engrossed 17101110D-E
- 2017-02-08 Placed on Calendar
- 2017-02-08 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2017-02-10 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-02-13 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-13 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2017-02-13 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2017-02-13 Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
passage - 2017-02-20 Enrolled
- 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-21 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 279 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/610e2f8f-b496-462e-b2ac-896d94504bf1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).