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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 HB 920. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | SB 247 | Virginia SB 247 (2022) |
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Virginia SB 247 (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 HB 920.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0507 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103903D (committee substitute) — source
- Printed as engrossed 22103903D-E (committee substitute) — source
- SB247ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)
- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103903D
introduction - 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2022-01-20 Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-01-25 Passed by for the day
- 2022-01-26 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-01-26 Reading of amendment waived
- 2022-01-26 Amendment by Senator Surovell agreed to
amendment-passage - 2022-01-26 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB247E
- 2022-01-26 Printed as engrossed 22103903D-E
- 2022-01-27 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-01-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB247E)
- 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-02-21 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2022-02-22 Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-02-25 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-02-25 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-02-25 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-01 Enrolled
- 2022-03-01 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-02 Signed by President
- 2022-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB247ER)
- 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 507 (effective 7/1/22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71ebbc16-6b76-4b21-afb3-01ce2216014a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).