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type: "Bill"
title: "Golf carts and utility vehicles on public highways; equine events."
description: "Authorizes the use of golf carts and utility vehicles to cross a one-lane or two-lane highway from one portion to another of a venue hosting an equine event, provided that the crossing occurs on the same day as the equine event, occurs in a temporary traffic control zone with a speed limit of no more than 35 miles per hour, and is monitored and controlled by a uniformed law-enforcement officer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 114"
citation: "Virginia HB 114 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways", "Bridges and Ferries", "Motor Vehicles", "Sporting Exhibitions", "Events and Facilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-12-15"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f04079c1-6916-42fe-8be4-e8471e94b000"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB114"
source_hash: "5bef9797d716f2be48ab0fb8739ac3e1d7034a8a33a68ca0d65bbe9318afbf0a"
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 HB 114 (2018) — Golf carts and utility vehicles on public highways; equine events.
Authorizes the use of golf carts and utility vehicles to cross a one-lane or two-lane highway from one portion to another of a venue hosting an equine event, provided that the crossing occurs on the same day as the equine event, occurs in a temporary traffic control zone with a speed limit of no more than 35 miles per hour, and is monitored and controlled by a uniformed law-enforcement officer.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB114ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB114ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100927D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB114)
3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18100927D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB114E)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **391** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **120** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendment — **220** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-12-15** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100927D `introduction`
- **2017-12-15** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2018-02-02** Engrossed by House as amended HB114E
- **2018-02-02** Printed as engrossed 18100927D-E
- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 112 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f04079c1-6916-42fe-8be4-e8471e94b000`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).