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type: "Bill"
title: "Trespassing on emergency vehicles; prohibition, penalty."
description: "Prohibition on trespassing on emergency vehicles; penalty. Provides that any person who enters or remains upon or within an emergency vehicle, defined in the bill, without the permission of, or after having been forbidden to do so by, the owner, lessee, or authorized operator is guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 111"
citation: "Virginia SB 111 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christie New Craig"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-03"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64978ec3-5b81-4fcb-af2a-b4f26ebae988"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB111"
source_hash: "2adc2aa79acc465311f5c1be25a00f3f449d403381d512aad2093dd1c1787d23"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 111 (2026) — Trespassing on emergency vehicles; prohibition, penalty.
Prohibition on trespassing on emergency vehicles; penalty. Provides that any person who enters or remains upon or within an emergency vehicle, defined in the bill, without the permission of, or after having been forbidden to do so by, the owner, lessee, or authorized operator is guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1082898.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217518.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1198766.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **400** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **970** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **220** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **100** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Christie New Craig — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102317D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB111)
- **2026-01-19** Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-20** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-01-20** Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-21** Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-22** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-03** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-21** Assigned HCJ sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2026-03-02** Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2026-03-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-10** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB111ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB111)
- **2026-03-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 332 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-06** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0332)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64978ec3-5b81-4fcb-af2a-b4f26ebae988`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).