republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-15.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	Warning light units, certain; increases number of units person may equip on one vehicle, etc.	Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him. This bill is identical to SB 150.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 15	Virginia HB 15 (2024)	bill		enacted	Joseph P. McNamara	3	25	6	2023-12-08	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/6331997f-e2af-4749-89a2-3a3ba490ebae	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB15	dbcd2dacfcc94424c6d5eef8ab2379aaded1a2171b3e723a251f87bd659c2580	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 15 (2024) — Warning light units, certain; increases number of units person may equip on one vehicle, etc.

Certain warning light units. Increases from two to four the number of flashing or steady-burning red or red and white combination warning light units with which a member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip one vehicle owned by him. This bill is identical to SB 150.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0076 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB15ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101443D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Transportation (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joseph P. McNamara — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101443D filing, introduction
• 2023-12-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB15)
• 2024-01-16 Assigned Transportation sub: Highway Safety and Policy referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-23 Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-25 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-26 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-29 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-01-30 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Reported from Transportation (12-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 (HB15ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB15ER)
• 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 76 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6331997f-e2af-4749-89a2-3a3ba490ebae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).