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type: "Bill"
title: "Speed limits, maximum; certain highways."
description: "Increases from 55 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour the maximum speed limit on U.S. Route 301, the entirety of U.S. Route 17, and State Routes 3 and 207. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 466"
citation: "Virginia SB 466 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39a98ea1-ac70-47b6-9fcb-897989fd7da9"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB466"
source_hash: "95afa0c36c26ebef6f22a3a1b16a017b35df95c00bff0911605bd1ebd1a6a7cb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 466 (2018) — Speed limits, maximum; certain highways.
Increases from 55 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour the maximum speed limit on U.S. Route 301, the entirety of U.S. Route 17, and State Routes 3 and 207. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB466ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB466ER)
2. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106504D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB466S1)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100266D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB466)
## Votes
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **112** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **373** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
- Richard H. Stuart (incorporated chief co-patron) — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100266D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Incorporates SB206 (Stuart)
- **2018-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Reading of substitute waived
- **2018-02-05** Committee substitute agreed to 18106504D-S1
- **2018-02-05** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB466S1
- **2018-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Passed by for the day
- **2018-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 160 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39a98ea1-ac70-47b6-9fcb-897989fd7da9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).