republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1425.md

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Bill	Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; exempts railway tunnels and bridges from Building Code.	Uniform Statewide Building Code; Virginia PassengerRail Authority exemption. Exempts railway tunnels and bridgesowned by the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority from the Uniform StatewideBuilding Code and the Statewide Fire Prevention Code Act. The billrequires the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to report annuallyto the State Fire Marshal on the maintenance and operability of installedfire protection and detection systems in its railway tunnels andbridges.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1425	Virginia HB 1425 (2024)	bill		enacted	Terry L. Austin	3	25	6	2024-01-18	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/94fc0c02-9e99-44a4-aa54-aed019dafd94	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1425	259bebb34a37cd933ccc684052b12fb815fd1d3dd3c6c9752aaa2a6ee697144d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1425 (2024) — Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; exempts railway tunnels and bridges from Building Code.

Uniform Statewide Building Code; Virginia PassengerRail Authority exemption. Exempts railway tunnels and bridgesowned by the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority from the Uniform StatewideBuilding Code and the Statewide Fire Prevention Code Act. The billrequires the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to report annuallyto the State Fire Marshal on the maintenance and operability of installedfire protection and detection systems in its railway tunnels andbridges.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0078 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1425ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 24104432D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Terry L. Austin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-18 Presented and ordered printed 24104432D introduction
• 2024-01-18 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Assigned Transportation sub: Transportation Infrastructure and Funding referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-01 Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (HB1425)
• 2024-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1425ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB1425ER)
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-28 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 78 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0078)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94fc0c02-9e99-44a4-aa54-aed019dafd94. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).