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88 lines
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Public utility vehicles; yielding right-of-way or reducing speed."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2018"
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identifier: "HB 955"
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citation: "Virginia HB 955 (2018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David E. Yancey"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2018-01-09"
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last_action: "2018-03-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e035f474-c4dc-42a6-b529-e3db4320c6da"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB955"
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source_hash: "55e55b3ff860b60ea895240c84d6ba05df16cfa746ff577e47ce462e57a4abe1"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 955 (2018) — Public utility vehicles; yielding right-of-way or reducing speed.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB955ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB955ER)
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2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104693D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB955)
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3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18104693D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB955E)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Senate amendments agreed to by House — **98–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate with amendments — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Transportation with amendments — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- David E. Yancey — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104693D `introduction`
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- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2018-01-19** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2018-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2018-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
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- **2018-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB955E
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- **2018-02-06** Printed as engrossed 18104693D-E
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- **2018-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2018-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2018-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-19** Reading of amendments waived
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- **2018-02-19** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2018-02-19** Engrossed by Senate as amended
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- **2018-02-21** Placed on Calendar
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- **2018-02-21** Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 1-N)
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- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
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- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
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- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
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- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
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- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
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- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 263 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e035f474-c4dc-42a6-b529-e3db4320c6da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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