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Bill	Child restraint devices and safety belts; exempts emergency and law-enforcement vehicles.	Exempts the operators of emergency medical services agency vehicles, fire company vehicles, fire department vehicles, and law-enforcement agency vehicles during the performance of their official duties from (i) the requirement that certain minors be secured with a safety belt and (ii) the requirement that minors under the age of eight be secured in a child restraint device, provided that exigent circumstances exist and no child restraint device is readily available. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 1662	Virginia HB 1662 (2019)	bill	Emergency Services and Vehicles Minors Motor Vehicles Police	enacted	Christopher T. Head	6	22	8	2018-12-03	2019-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/fe7eb915-9f03-4184-8325-edb7653ad67d	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1662	6f17f7cfc93804c9f8ccb176ba81037a53db390783f8697f1f110cd3f2c53bde	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1662 (2019) — Child restraint devices and safety belts; exempts emergency and law-enforcement vehicles.

Exempts the operators of emergency medical services agency vehicles, fire company vehicles, fire department vehicles, and law-enforcement agency vehicles during the performance of their official duties from (i) the requirement that certain minors be secured with a safety belt and (ii) the requirement that minors under the age of eight be secured in a child restraint device, provided that exigent circumstances exist and no child restraint device is readily available. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196) (committee substitute) — source
2. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1662ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Committee substitute printed 19104859D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100134D (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106387D-S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Transportation with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106387D-S1 — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Transportation with substitute — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Christopher T. Head — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100134D introduction
• 2018-12-03 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2019-01-09 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2019-01-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-01-22 Committee substitute agreed to 19104859D-H1
• 2019-01-22 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1662H1
• 2019-01-23 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Reading of substitute waived
• 2019-02-11 Committee substitute agreed to 19106387D-S1
• 2019-02-11 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1662S1
• 2019-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2019-02-13 Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106387D-S1 (96-Y 0-N)
• 2019-02-15 Enrolled
• 2019-02-15 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-15 Signed by President
• 2019-02-19 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
• 2019-02-19 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 196 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe7eb915-9f03-4184-8325-edb7653ad67d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).