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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; use of safety belt systems."
description: "Use of safety belt systems. Requires all adult passengers in a motor vehicle equipped with a safety belt system to wear such safety belt system when the motor vehicle is in motion on a public highway. Current law requires adult passengers to wear such safety belts when occupying the front seat."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2475"
citation: "Virginia HB 2475 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen Keys-Gamarra"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5783420-042e-49fd-bf02-267e4e0e095a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2475"
source_hash: "1fff093f089d0e7b0d464f57d7c0b88a3accce788e842a8802222e5683f19f55"
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 2475 (2025) — Motor vehicles; use of safety belt systems.
Use of safety belt systems. Requires all adult passengers in a motor vehicle equipped with a safety belt system to wear such safety belt system when the motor vehicle is in motion on a public highway. Current law requires adult passengers to wear such safety belts when occupying the front seat.
## 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/1016441.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074369.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1066546.PDF)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N) — **2217** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (65-Y 33-N) — **6533** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (12-Y 10-N) — **1210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 1-N) — **41** (pass) · lower
- Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (11-Y 3-N 1-A) — **113** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Karen Keys-Gamarra — primary (person)
- Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104235D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Assigned Trans sub: Highway Safety and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 1-N)
- **2025-01-30** Reported from Transportation (12-Y 10-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (65-Y 33-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Transportation (11-Y 3-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-19** Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2475ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 414 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0414)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5783420-042e-49fd-bf02-267e4e0e095a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).