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SENATE BILL NO. 1401 Offered January 19, 2007 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-936.1, relating to motor vehicle stops. ---------- Patrons-- Marsh and Miller ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 46.2-936.1 as follows:

§ 46.2-936.1. Law-enforcement stop of motor vehicle; informing of reason for stop.

After a law-enforcement officer gives a visible and audible signal to a person to stop his motor vehicle and such person complies with such signal, the law-enforcement officer shall, when he approaches the vehicle, immediately inform the person of the reason he stopped the motor vehicle.