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type: "Bill"
title: "Photo speed monitoring devices; proof of violation affirmed by retired law-enforcement officials."
description: "Photo speed monitoring devices; proof of violation; retired law-enforcement officials. Allows a retired sworn law-enforcement officer, defined in the bill, to swear to or affirm a certificate for a vehicle speed violation enforced by a photo speed monitoring device."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 852"
citation: "Virginia SB 852 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christie New Craig"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-03"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edfd1436-f2d5-49f7-8377-48ada176fc67"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB852"
source_hash: "a26e6e1d367beda199f9d490c775237e96238139879c783e0b10acce0e520105"
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 852 (2025) — Photo speed monitoring devices; proof of violation affirmed by retired law-enforcement officials.
Photo speed monitoring devices; proof of violation; retired law-enforcement officials. Allows a retired sworn law-enforcement officer, defined in the bill, to swear to or affirm a certificate for a vehicle speed violation enforced by a photo speed monitoring device.
## 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/1013612.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074390.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1059664.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) — **3010** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (13-Y 6-N) — **136** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (69-Y 27-N) — **6927** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation (13-Y 2-N) — **132** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Christie New Craig — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102952D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-03** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Reported from Transportation (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB852)
- **2025-01-20** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-20** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-22** Read third time and passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Assigned Trans sub: Innovations (Ad Hoc) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-13** Reported from Transportation (13-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Passed House (69-Y 27-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-20** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB852ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB852)
- **2025-03-05** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-05** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 434 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0434)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/edfd1436-f2d5-49f7-8377-48ada176fc67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).