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| Bill | Careless driving; vulnerable road users. | Careless driving; vulnerable road users. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he operates a vehicle in a careless or distracted manner and causes the death or serious bodily injury of a vulnerable road user. Current law only imposes the penalty if such careless or distracted operation causes serious bodily injury to the vulnerable road user. The bill also allows a court to suspend the driver's license or restrict the driver's license of a person convicted of careless driving for up to six months. This bill is identical to SB 247. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | HB 920 | Virginia HB 920 (2022) |
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Virginia HB 920 (2022) — Careless driving; vulnerable road users.
Careless driving; vulnerable road users. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if he operates a vehicle in a careless or distracted manner and causes the death or serious bodily injury of a vulnerable road user. Current law only imposes the penalty if such careless or distracted operation causes serious bodily injury to the vulnerable road user. The bill also allows a court to suspend the driver's license or restrict the driver's license of a person convicted of careless driving for up to six months. This bill is identical to SB 247.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0506 (committee substitute) — source
- HB920ER (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103904D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 22103904D-E (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103904D
introduction - 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2022-01-20 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 Highway Safety and Policy
referral-committee - 2022-01-26 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 2022-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- 2022-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (HB920)
- 2022-02-01 Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-03 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-04 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-04 Committee amendments agreed to
- 2022-02-04 Engrossed by House as amended HB920E
- 2022-02-04 Printed as engrossed 22103904D-E
- 2022-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB920E)
- 2022-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2022-02-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2022-02-17 Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-22 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-22 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-24 Enrolled
- 2022-02-25 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-02-25 Signed by President
- 2022-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB920ER)
- 2022-03-09 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- 2022-03-09 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 506 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/073b01d7-48d6-4e60-9066-c1ed12075dd0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).