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2004 SESSION

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HB 87 Mobile infrared transmitters; certain prohibited.

Introduced by: L. Scott Lingamfelter | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Mobile infrared transmitters. Prohibits operation by any person of a motor vehicle on the highways of the Commonwealth when the vehicle is equipped with a mobile infrared transmitter used to preempt or change the signal given by a traffic light. The bill also makes it illegal to sell any of these devices in the Commonwealth, except for uses permitted by the bill. The bill doesn't apply to law-enforcement, fire-fighting, life-saving, or rescue vehicles or ambulances responding to an emergency call or operating in an emergency situation, nor to any vehicle providing public transportation service in a corridor approved for public transportation priority by the Virginia Department of Transportation or the governing body of any county, city, or town having control of the highways within its boundaries. The bill incorporates HB 895, HB 366, and HB155.

FULL TEXT

• 01/14/04  House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/16/03 042226380  pdf
• 01/28/04  House: Committee substitute printed 048232380-H1  pdf
• 01/30/04  House: Substitute bill reprinted 048232380-H1  pdf
• 03/15/04  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB87ER)  pdf
• 04/12/04  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268)  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/14/04  House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/16/03 042226380
• 01/14/04  House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
• 01/19/04  House: Assigned to Tra. sub-committee: 3
• 01/27/04  House: Reported from Tra. w/sub (21-Y 0-N)
• 01/28/04  House: Committee substitute printed 048232380-H1
• 01/29/04  House: Read first time
• 01/30/04  House: Substitute bill reprinted 048232380-H1
• 01/30/04  House: Passed by for the day
• 02/02/04  House: Read second time
• 02/02/04  House: Committee substitute agreed to 048232380-H1
• 02/02/04  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB87H1
• 02/03/04  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/03/04  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/03/04  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/04/04  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/04/04  Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
• 02/19/04  Senate: Reported from Transportation (13-Y 0-N)
• 02/23/04  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/23/04  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/24/04  Senate: Read third time
• 02/24/04  Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/24/04  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (38-Y 0-N)
• 03/15/04  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB87ER)
• 03/15/04  House: Enrolled
• 03/15/04  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/15/04  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/31/04  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 268 (effective 7/1/04)
• 04/12/04  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0268)