HB 1662 Virginia House of Delegates · 2019 Regular Session

Child restraint devices and safety belts; exempts emergency and law-enforcement vehicles.

Summary
Exempts the operators of emergency medical services agency vehicles, fire company vehicles, fire department vehicles, and law-enforcement agency vehicles during the performance of their official duties from (i) the requirement that certain minors be secured with a safety belt and (ii) the requirement that minors under the age of eight be secured in a child restraint device, provided that exigent circumstances exist and no child restraint device is readily available. This bill is identical to
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2018
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Mar 2019
Introduced Dec 3, 2018 Signed Mar 5, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 8, 2019

How they voted

370
Passed
Total votes 37
Feb 8, 2019
D Democratic17
17 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican20
20 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
23
Key actions
7
Committee
7
Mar 5, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 196 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 11, 2019
Upper · Passed
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1662S1
upper
Feb 11, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19106387D-S1
upper
Feb 8, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (37-0)
senate
Jan 24, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Transportation
upper
Jan 23, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2019
Lower · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1662H1
lower
Jan 22, 2019
Lower · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 19104859D-H1
lower
Jan 9, 2019
Committee
Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Dec 3, 2018
Committee
Referred to Committee on Transportation
lower
Dec 3, 2018
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100134D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Chris Head
Chris Head
RRepublican
VA
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