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| Bill | School crossing zones; active times, locality may increase time preceding & following school hours. | School crossing zones; active times. Authorizes a local governing body, by ordinance, to increase from 30 minutes to up to 60 minutes the period of time before and after regular school hours during which school crossing zones are active if it determines that children will be going to or from school during that period of time. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2026 | SB 221 | Virginia SB 221 (2026) |
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Virginia SB 221 (2026) — School crossing zones; active times, locality may increase time preceding & following school hours.
School crossing zones; active times. Authorizes a local governing body, by ordinance, to increase from 30 minutes to up to 60 minutes the period of time before and after regular school hours during which school crossing zones are active if it determines that children will be going to or from school during that period of time.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- Transportation Substitute (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — 9–0 (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — 80–15 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Michael J. Jones — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103248D
filing, introduction - 2026-01-09 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2026-01-23 Senate committee offered
- 2026-01-29 Reported from Transportation with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-02-02 Committee substitute printed 26106103D-S1
substitution - 2026-02-02 Rules suspended
- 2026-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 2026-02-02 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 2026-02-02 Passed by for the day
- 2026-02-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-02-03 Transportation Substitute agreed to
- 2026-02-03 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote)
substitution - 2026-02-03 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB221)
- 2026-02-04 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-09 Placed on Calendar
- 2026-02-09 Read first time
reading-1 - 2026-02-09 Referred to Committee on Transportation
referral-committee - 2026-02-20 Assigned HTRAN sub: Highway Safety and Policy
referral-committee - 2026-02-25 Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- 2026-03-03 Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2026-03-05 Read second time
reading-2 - 2026-03-06 Passed by for the day
- 2026-03-06 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
- 2026-03-09 Read third time
reading-3 - 2026-03-09 Passed House (80-Y 15-N 0-A)
passage - 2026-03-13 Enrolled
enrolled - 2026-03-13 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB221ER)
passage - 2026-03-13 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2026-03-13 Signed by President
passage - 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 - 2026-03-16 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB221)
- 2026-04-06 Approved by Governor-Chapter 337 (effective 7/1/2026)
executive-signature - 2026-04-06 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c73400f-19d3-4cd4-8e1a-dc3c4fb6dd45. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).