republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-450.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Traffic incident management vehicles; certain vehicles exempt when en route to scene of an accident.	Traffic incident management vehicles. Adds traffic incident management vehicles, defined in the bill, operated by persons who meet certain training requirements to a list of vehicles exempt from certain traffic regulations at or en route to the scene of a traffic accident or similar incident. The bill also allows such vehicles to be equipped with flashing red or red and white secondary warning lights.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 450	Virginia SB 450 (2022)	bill		enacted	Jennifer B. Boysko	4	27	5	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/f3024262-6389-42a6-9986-1a65a9d2244a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB450	e8ee7d8818a07a53cce838d61c649894e4284d6a47b74741d60c2cb1ddefa9f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 450 (2022) — Traffic incident management vehicles; certain vehicles exempt when en route to scene of an accident.

Traffic incident management vehicles. Adds traffic incident management vehicles, defined in the bill, operated by persons who meet certain training requirements to a list of vehicles exempt from certain traffic regulations at or en route to the scene of a traffic accident or similar incident. The bill also allows such vehicles to be equipped with flashing red or red and white secondary warning lights.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0458 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100453D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22100453D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB450ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation with amendment (10-Y 3-N) — 10–3 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100453D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2022-01-26 Impact statement from DPB (SB450)
• 2022-01-27 Reported from Transportation with amendment (10-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-01 Printed as engrossed 22100453D-E
• 2022-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-01 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-02-01 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-02-01 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB450E
• 2022-02-02 Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-22 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-22 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-01 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (SB450E)
• 2022-03-04 Enrolled
• 2022-03-04 Signed by President
• 2022-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB450ER)
• 2022-03-04 Signed by Speaker
• 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 458 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f3024262-6389-42a6-9986-1a65a9d2244a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).