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VA HB 365

died on adjournment

Emergency vehicles; exempt from certain traffic regulations.

Virginia · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Emergency vehicles; exempt from certain traffic regulations. Authorizes a law-enforcement vehicle, defined in current law, operated by or under the direction of a state or local law-enforcement officer to disregard parking and stopping provisions. The bill expands the situations in which such vehicles may disregard speed limits to include when establishing evidence of other violations of law and when responding to an emergency in which emergency lights and siren may pose a safety risk and removes such authorization for disregarding speed limits in certain situations provided under existing law for law-enforcement vehicles operated by or under the direction of a federal law-enforcement officer.

Introduced
2026-01-12
Status date
—
Latest action
2026-02-20 — Senate committee offered
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Ellen H. McLaughlinprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-12

    Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104017D

    filing,introduction

  2. 2026-01-12

    Referred to Committee on Transportation

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-19

    Assigned HTRAN sub: Highway Safety and Policy

    referral-committee

  4. 2026-01-28

    House subcommittee offered

  5. 2026-01-28

    Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N 1-A)

  6. 2026-02-03

    House committee offered

  7. 2026-02-03

    Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)

    committee-passage

  8. 2026-02-05

    Read first time

    reading-1

  9. 2026-02-06

    Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar

  10. 2026-02-06

    Passed by for the day

  11. 2026-02-09

    Floor offered Delegate McLaughlin Amendments

  12. 2026-02-09

    Read second time

    reading-2

  13. 2026-02-09

    committee amendments rejected

    amendment-failure

  14. 2026-02-09

    Delegate McLaughlin Floor amendments agreed to

    amendment-passage

  15. 2026-02-09

    Engrossed by House as amended

  16. 2026-02-10

    Read third time and passed House (96-Y 2-N 0-A)

    passage,reading-3

  17. 2026-02-11

    Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)

  18. 2026-02-11

    Referred to Committee on Transportation

    referral-committee

  19. 2026-02-16

    Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB365)

  20. 2026-02-19

    Passed by indefinitely in Transportation (8-Y 7-N)

    deferral

  21. 2026-02-20

    Senate committee offered

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s)

    2026-01-28 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • David A. Reid: yes
    • Jeion A. Ward: not voting
    • Delores L. McQuinn: yes
    • Bonita G. Anthony: yes
    • Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker: abstain
    • Joshua E. Thomas: yes
    • Leslie Chambers Mehta: yes
    • Barry D. Knight: not voting
    • Jason S. Ballard: yes
    • Wren M. Williams: not voting
    • Karrie K. Delaney: yes

  • Reported from Transportation with amendment(s)

    2026-02-03 · pass · 21-0

    Member-level votes (22)
    • Karrie K. Delaney: yes
    • David A. Reid: yes
    • Jeion A. Ward: yes
    • Delores L. McQuinn: yes
    • Betsy B. Carr: yes
    • Vivian E. Watts: yes
    • Briana D. Sewell: yes
    • Jackie H. Glass: yes
    • Adele Y. McClure: yes
    • Bonita G. Anthony: yes
    • Michael B. Feggans: yes
    • Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker: yes
    • Elizabeth R. Guzman: yes
    • Leslie Chambers Mehta: yes
    • Joshua E. Thomas: yes
    • Barry D. Knight: not voting
    • Terry L. Austin: yes
    • Scott A. Wyatt: yes
    • Bill Wiley: yes
    • Israel D. O'Quinn: yes
    • Jason S. Ballard: yes
    • Wren M. Williams: yes

  • H VOTE:

    2026-02-10 · pass · 96-2

    Member-level votes (100)
    • Jessica L. Anderson: yes
    • Bonita G. Anthony: yes
    • Alex Q. Askew: yes
    • Terry L. Austin: yes
    • Jason S. Ballard: yes
    • Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker: not voting
    • Robert S. Bloxom, Jr.: yes
    • Gretchen M. Bulova: yes
    • Katrina Callsen: yes
    • Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie: yes
    • Betsy B. Carr: yes
    • Stacey Annie Carroll: yes
    • Mike A. Cherry: yes
    • Nadarius E. Clark: yes
    • Laura Jane Cohen: yes
    • Joshua G. Cole: yes
    • Nicole Cole: yes
    • Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler: yes
    • Mitchell Cornett: yes
    • Rae Cousins: yes
    • Will Davis: yes
    • Karrie K. Delaney: yes
    • Lindsey Dougherty: yes
    • Mark C. Downey: yes
    • Michael B. Feggans: yes
    • Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr.: yes
    • Lily V. Franklin: yes
    • Margaret A. Franklin: yes
    • Debra D. Gardner: yes
    • Thomas A. Garrett, Jr.: yes
    • Jackie H. Glass: yes
    • Timothy P. Griffin: yes
    • Elizabeth R. Guzman: yes
    • Karen Hamilton: yes
    • C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.: yes
    • Dan I. Helmer: yes
    • Rozia A. Henson, Jr.: yes
    • Phil M. Hernandez: yes
    • Charniele L. Herring: yes
    • M. Keith Hodges: yes
    • Patrick A. Hope: yes
    • Hillary Pugh Kent: yes
    • Karen Keys-Gamarra: yes
    • Terry G. Kilgore: yes
    • Barry D. Knight: not voting
    • Paul E. Krizek: yes
    • Amy J. Laufer: no
    • James A. "Jay" Leftwich: yes
    • Destiny LeVere Bolling: yes
    • Alfonso H. Lopez: yes
    • Michelle Lopes Maldonado: yes
    • Marty Martinez: yes
    • John Chilton McAuliff: yes
    • Adele Y. McClure: yes
    • Garrett McGuire: yes
    • Ellen H. McLaughlin: yes
    • Joseph P. McNamara: yes
    • Delores L. McQuinn: yes
    • Leslie Chambers Mehta: yes
    • James W. Morefield: yes
    • May Nivar: yes
    • Delores Oates: yes
    • Israel D. O'Quinn: yes
    • Justin Pence: yes
    • Eric Phillips: yes
    • Kimberly Pope Adams: yes
    • Marcia S. "Cia" Price: yes
    • Sam Rasoul: yes
    • Atoosa R. Reaser: yes
    • David A. Reid: yes
    • Chris S. Runion: yes
    • Charlie Schmidt: yes
    • Don Scott: yes
    • Phillip A. Scott: yes
    • Holly M. Seibold: yes
    • Briana D. Sewell: yes
    • Irene Shin: yes
    • Marcus B. Simon: no
    • Shelly A. Simonds: yes
    • JJ Singh: yes
    • Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr.: yes
    • Anne Ferrell Tata: yes
    • Joshua E. Thomas: yes
    • Virgil Thornton: yes
    • Luke E. Torian: yes
    • Kathy K.L. Tran: yes
    • H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr.: yes
    • Wendell S. Walker: yes
    • Jeion A. Ward: yes
    • R. Lee Ware: yes
    • Vivian E. Watts: yes
    • Michael J. Webert: yes
    • Madison Whittle: yes
    • Bill Wiley: yes
    • Rodney T. Willett: yes
    • Wren M. Williams: yes
    • Tony O. Wilt: yes
    • Thomas C. Wright, Jr.: yes
    • Scott A. Wyatt: yes
    • Eric R. Zehr: yes

  • Passed by indefinitely in Transportation

    2026-02-19 · pass · 8-7

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Lamont Bagby: yes
    • David W. Marsden: no
    • Bill DeSteph: no
    • David R. Suetterlein: yes
    • Jennifer B. Boysko: yes
    • T. Travis Hackworth: no
    • Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr.: no
    • Lashrecse D. Aird: yes
    • Danica A. Roem: yes
    • J.D. "Danny" Diggs: no
    • Stella G. Pekarsky: yes
    • Tammy Brankley Mulchi: no
    • Kannan Srinivasan: yes
    • Luther Cifers, III: no
    • Michael J. Jones: yes

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB365

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