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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.
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB563ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102712D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — 11–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 10–0 (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).