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Bill Motor vehicles, certain; flashing red or red and white warning lights. Allows vehicles of the National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) to utilize flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights when responding to an emergency. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2018 HB 563 Virginia HB 563 (2018)
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Virginia HB 563 (2018) — Motor vehicles, certain; flashing red or red and white warning lights.

Allows vehicles of the National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) to utilize flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights when responding to an emergency.

Version chain

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

  1. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB563ER) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102712D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passed Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Transportation — 110 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 990 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Transportation — 220 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 380 (pass) · legislature
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 100 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — primary (person)
  • Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
  • Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
  • Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
  • John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
  • Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
  • Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
  • Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
  • Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
  • Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2018-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102712D introduction
  • 2018-01-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
  • 2018-01-16 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
  • 2018-01-29 Read first time reading-1
  • 2018-01-30 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2018-01-31 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2018-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2018-02-01 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
  • 2018-02-19 Read third time reading-3
  • 2018-02-21 Enrolled
  • 2018-02-21 Signed by Speaker
  • 2018-02-23 Signed by President
  • 2018-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
  • 2018-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
  • 2018-03-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 64 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e436115d-00c4-4074-a765-db73a4092858. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).