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type: "Bill"
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title: "Failure to obey highway sign where driver sleeping or resting; prepayable offense."
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description: "Provides that a violation of a highway sign where a driver has parked or stopped his vehicle on the shoulder of the highway in order to sleep or rest is a prepayable offense unless such vehicle is parked or stopped in such manner as to impede or render dangerous the shoulder or other portion of the highway."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "SB 1021"
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citation: "Virginia SB 1021 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Courts Not of Record", "Highways", "Bridges and Ferries", "Motor Vehicles"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["George L. Barker"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-01-04"
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last_action: "2017-03-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92f0662f-3dee-4ecb-8f0c-9dc1fa4fc0ef"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1021"
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source_hash: "0f44b9eec074e98b5dcf5335a4633725069f623ba24f022a315223272b62775c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 1021 (2017) — Failure to obey highway sign where driver sleeping or resting; prepayable offense.
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Provides that a violation of a highway sign where a driver has parked or stopped his vehicle on the shoulder of the highway in order to sleep or rest is a prepayable offense unless such vehicle is parked or stopped in such manner as to impede or render dangerous the shoulder or other portion of the highway.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0504)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0504)
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2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1021ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1021ER)
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3. **Senate: Floor substitute printed 17105103D-S1 (Barker)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1021S1)
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4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102922D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1021)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Transportation — **15–6** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Transportation — **7–6** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed Senate — **21–19** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed House — **82–14** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- George L. Barker — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102922D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-04** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-30** Passed by for the day
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- **2017-01-31** Passed by for the day
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- **2017-02-02** Passed by for the day
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- **2017-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
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- **2017-02-03** Floor substitute printed 17105103D-S1 (Barker)
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- **2017-02-03** Substitute by Senator Barker agreed to 17105103D-S1
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- **2017-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1021S1
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- **2017-02-08** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-09** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-20** Passed House (82-Y 14-N) `passage`
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- **2017-02-22** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-22** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-22** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-23** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
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- **2017-02-23** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 504 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92f0662f-3dee-4ecb-8f0c-9dc1fa4fc0ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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