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| Bill | Public utility vehicles; yielding right-of-way or reducing speed. | Authorizes vehicles used by any public utility company for the purpose of repairing, installing, or maintaining electric or natural gas utility equipment or service to use certain high-intensity amber warning lights. The bill provides that if such a vehicle is stationary and displaying such lights, drivers shall, if possible, make a lane change to the lane not adjacent to the vehicle or reduce speed and proceed with caution. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2018 | HB 955 | Virginia HB 955 (2018) |
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Virginia HB 955 (2018) — Public utility vehicles; yielding right-of-way or reducing speed.
Authorizes vehicles used by any public utility company for the purpose of repairing, installing, or maintaining electric or natural gas utility equipment or service to use certain high-intensity amber warning lights. The bill provides that if such a vehicle is stationary and displaying such lights, drivers shall, if possible, make a lane change to the lane not adjacent to the vehicle or reduce speed and proceed with caution.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB955ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104693D (committee substitute) — source
- House: Printed as engrossed 18104693D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 38–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendments agreed to by House — 98–1 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendments — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendments — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- David E. Yancey — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104693D
introduction - 2018-01-09 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2018-01-19 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1
referral-committee - 2018-02-05 Read first time
reading-1 - 2018-02-06 Read second time
reading-2 - 2018-02-06 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2018-02-06 Engrossed by House as amended HB955E
- 2018-02-06 Printed as engrossed 18104693D-E
- 2018-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2018-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2018-02-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2018-02-19 Read third time
reading-3 - 2018-02-19 Reading of amendments waived
- 2018-02-19 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2018-02-19 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2018-02-21 Placed on Calendar
- 2018-02-21 Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 1-N)
- 2018-02-26 Enrolled
- 2018-02-26 Signed by Speaker
- 2018-02-28 Signed by President
- 2018-03-02 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- 2018-03-02 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor-Chapter 263 (effective 7/1/18)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e035f474-c4dc-42a6-b529-e3db4320c6da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).