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Bill	Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person.	Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person of rights. Provides that if a police officer or a member of any sheriff's department fails to advise a person of his rights to refuse a preliminary breath test, any preliminary breath test sample shall not be admissible by the Commonwealth in any motion to suppress for the purpose of determining probable cause.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 95	Virginia SB 95 (2024)	bill		enacted	William M. Stanley, Jr.	4	36	9	2024-01-02	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/5c069155-92ec-4d3c-b12d-33ce8c51e5a8	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB95	20cd74fbbfa444960140284c0f44312655237e6cdf288b74ba426f8b105986b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 95 (2024) — Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person.

Preliminary analysis of breath to determine alcoholic content of blood; failure to advise person of rights. Provides that if a police officer or a member of any sheriff's department fails to advise a person of his rights to refuse a preliminary breath test, any preliminary breath test sample shall not be admissible by the Commonwealth in any motion to suppress for the purpose of determining probable cause.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0759 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102057D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24102057D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB95ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N) — 87–11 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Referred from Public Safety — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102057D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-02 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-02-05 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 Reading of amendments waived
• 2024-02-09 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-09 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB95E
• 2024-02-09 Printed as engrossed 24102057D-E
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Referred from Public Safety referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-28 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-02-28 Passed House with amendments (88-Y 11-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N) passage
• 2024-03-01 House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB95ER) passage
• 2024-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 759 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c069155-92ec-4d3c-b12d-33ce8c51e5a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).