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2023 SESSION
SB 981 Flashing red and white warning lights; emergency vehicle exemptions.
Introduced by: David W. Marsden | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Flashing red and white warning lights; emergency vehicle exemptions; WMATA Response and Recovery Coordination Branch vehicles. Authorizes vehicles operated by the Response and Recovery Coordination Branch of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's Office of Emergency Preparedness to (i) be equipped with flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights and (ii) disregard certain regulations regarding the operation of vehicles without being subject to criminal prosecution while responding to an emergency, provided that the operator of such vehicle has received certain training and recertifies every two years. The bill adds responding to metropolitan transit-related incidents to the list of circumstances in which such lighted warning lights shall be displayed. This bill is identical to HB 2423.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101698D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23101698D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/16/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB981ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/21/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/06/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101698D
- 01/06/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/26/23 Senate: Reported from Transportation with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/23 Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/23 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 01/31/23 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/31/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB981E
- 01/31/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23101698D-E
- 02/01/23 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/23 House: Read first time
- 02/08/23 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/09/23 House: Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/23 House: Read second time
- 02/14/23 House: Read third time
- 02/14/23 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/23 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/16/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB981ER)
- 02/16/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/16/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/02/23 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/21/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 89 (effective 7/1/23)
- 03/21/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0089)