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| Bill | Reckless driving; improper driving as a lesser included offense. | Improper driving as a lesser included offense of reckless driving. Permits a jury to find an accused, where the degree of culpability is slight, not guilty of reckless driving but guilty of improper driving. Current law only permits the trial court to do so or the attorney for the Commonwealth to reduce a charge of reckless driving to improper driving at any time prior to the court's decision. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2025 | SB 847 | Virginia SB 847 (2025) |
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5 | 33 | 8 | 2025-01-02 | 2025-03-21 | openstates | ocd-bill/5de5ccf6-acbe-4bd4-9c78-ee6c2415054f | https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB847 | c422647aa3ce8d3fb4c7714a522a384c4f0eec0ff551a34f02b7fb7bb1565bdb | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia SB 847 (2025) — Reckless driving; improper driving as a lesser included offense.
Improper driving as a lesser included offense of reckless driving. Permits a jury to find an accused, where the degree of culpability is slight, not guilty of reckless driving but guilty of improper driving. Current law only permits the trial court to do so or the attorney for the Commonwealth to reduce a charge of reckless driving to improper driving at any time prior to the court's decision.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Rereferred from Transportation and rereferred to Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101028D
filing, introduction - 2025-01-02 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2025-01-16 Rereferred from Transportation to Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)
referral-committee - 2025-01-29 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-01-31 Rules suspended
- 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 2025-01-31 Passed by for the day
- 2025-02-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-03 Reading of amendment waived
- 2025-02-03 Courts of Justice Amendment agreed to
amendment-passage - 2025-02-03 Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 2025-02-03 Printed as engrossed 25101028D-E
- 2025-02-03 Rules suspended
- 2025-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-03 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-02-06 Placed on Calendar
- 2025-02-06 Read first time
reading-1 - 2025-02-06 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2025-02-11 Referred from Transportation and referred to Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
referral-committee - 2025-02-11 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
referral-committee - 2025-02-12 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2025-02-14 Reported from Courts of Justice (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2025-02-18 Read second time
reading-2 - 2025-02-19 Read third time
reading-3 - 2025-02-19 Passed House (97-Y 0-N)
passage - 2025-03-07 Enrolled
enrolled - 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB847ER)
passage - 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2025-03-10 Signed by President
passage - 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
enrolled - 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
executive-receipt - 2025-03-21 Approved by Governor-Chapter 357 (Effective 07/01/25)
executive-signature - 2025-03-21 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0357)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5de5ccf6-acbe-4bd4-9c78-ee6c2415054f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).