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type: "Bill"
title: "Traffic incident management vehicles; certain vehicles exempt when en route to scene of an accident."
description: "Traffic incident management vehicles. Adds traffic incident management vehicles, defined in the bill, operated by persons who meet certain training requirements to a list of vehicles exempt from certain traffic regulations at or en route to the scene of a traffic accident or similar incident. The bill also allows such vehicles to be equipped with flashing red or red and white secondary warning lights."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 450"
citation: "Virginia SB 450 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer B. Boysko"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3024262-6389-42a6-9986-1a65a9d2244a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB450"
source_hash: "e8ee7d8818a07a53cce838d61c649894e4284d6a47b74741d60c2cb1ddefa9f6"
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 450 (2022) — Traffic incident management vehicles; certain vehicles exempt when en route to scene of an accident.
Traffic incident management vehicles. Adds traffic incident management vehicles, defined in the bill, operated by persons who meet certain training requirements to a list of vehicles exempt from certain traffic regulations at or en route to the scene of a traffic accident or similar incident. The bill also allows such vehicles to be equipped with flashing red or red and white secondary warning lights.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0458** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0458)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100453D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB450)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22100453D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB450E)
4. **SB450ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB450ER)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation with amendment (10-Y 3-N) — **103** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) — **3010** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jennifer B. Boysko — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100453D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB450)
- **2022-01-27** Reported from Transportation with amendment (10-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-01** Printed as engrossed 22100453D-E
- **2022-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-01** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-02-01** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-02-01** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB450E
- **2022-02-02** Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Impact statement from DPB (SB450E)
- **2022-03-04** Enrolled
- **2022-03-04** Signed by President
- **2022-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB450ER)
- **2022-03-04** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 458 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3024262-6389-42a6-9986-1a65a9d2244a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).