Traffic offenses, certain; issuing citations. (HB79)
Introduced By
Del. Ronnie Campbell (R-Raphine) with support from co-patron Del. Scott Wyatt (R-Mechanicsville)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
✗ |
Passed Committee |
✓ |
Passed House |
☐ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
☐ |
Became Law |
Description
Issuing citations; certain traffic offenses. Removes the provisions that provide that no law-enforcement officer may lawfully stop a motor vehicle for operating (i) without a light illuminating a license plate, (ii) with defective and unsafe equipment, (iii) without brake lights or a high mount stop light, (iv) without an exhaust system that prevents excessive or unusual levels of noise, (v) with certain sun-shading materials and tinting films, and (vi) with certain objects suspended in the vehicle, and the accompanying the exclusionary provisions. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Failed
History
Date | Action |
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01/04/2022 | Committee |
01/04/2022 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102406D |
01/04/2022 | Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice |
01/12/2022 | Impact statement from DPB (HB79) |
01/25/2022 | Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 |
01/28/2022 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) |
02/07/2022 | Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 9-N) (see vote tally) |
02/07/2022 | Committee substitute printed 22105519D-H1 |
02/07/2022 | Incorporates HB1030 (Austin) |
02/09/2022 | Read first time |
02/10/2022 | Impact statement from DPB (HB79H1) |
02/10/2022 | Read second time |
02/10/2022 | Committee substitute agreed to 22105519D-H1 |
02/10/2022 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB79H1 |
02/11/2022 | Read third time and passed House (52-Y 45-N) |
02/11/2022 | VOTE: Passage (52-Y 45-N) (see vote tally) |
02/14/2022 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/14/2022 | Referred to Committee on the Judiciary |
02/28/2022 | Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) (see vote tally) |
Comments
Ask your legislators to vote NO on this bill that would repeal the prohibitions enacted last year on police use of minor traffic infractions and the smell of marijuana as excuses to stop and ask to search cars. The law was changed to eliminate unnecessary interactions between police and the public and address the reality that these kinds of stops were disproportionately being made on Black and Brown people.
Please vote no on this. You know it’s the right thing to do. Don’t set VA back.
Please vote NO on this. This will take us back 500 years.
If police can it enforce a law, then do not make it a crime in the first place.