HB 42 Virginia House of Delegates · 2022 Regular Session

Improper driving; person may be charged with offense when conduct constitutes reckless driving.

Summary
Improper driving. Provides that a personmay be charged with the offense of improper driving when his conductis of the kind that constitutes reckless driving but when his degreeof culpability is slight. Currently, a law-enforcement officer isnot able to charge a person with improper driving, but a charge ofreckless driving may be reduced to improper driving by the courtor the attorney for the Commonwealth.
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Dec 2021
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Introduced Dec 31, 2021 Last action Feb 15, 2022
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Dec 31, 2021
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Dec 31, 2021
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Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103504D
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Timothy V. Anderson
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