HB2096
Intelligent Speed Assistance Program; established, penalty.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
House: Enacted, Chapter 652 (Effective 07/01/26)
Chief Patron:
Patrick Hope (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Intelligent Speed Assistance Program established; penalty.
Establishes the Intelligent Speed Assistance Program to be administered by the Commission on the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program. The bill authorizes enrollment in such Program as an alternative to suspending a person's driver's license upon such person's conviction of certain speed-related offenses. The bill requires (i) a court to ... (More) order enrollment in such Program for a person convicted of reckless driving and who was found to have been driving in excess of 100 miles per hour and (ii) the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to require enrollment in such Program for a person who has accumulated certain amounts of demerit points. The bill requires any participant in the Program to install an intelligent speed assistance system, defined in the bill, in any motor vehicle owned by or registered to the participant and prohibits the participant from driving any motor vehicle that does not have such a system installed. The bill creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for tampering with or attempting to bypass or circumvent such a system. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25102621D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/14/2025 - House: Assigned Trans sub: Highway Safety and Policy
- 01/14/2025 - House: Placed on Transportation Agenda
- 01/15/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/15/2025 - House: Placed on Transportation Agenda
- 01/16/2025 - House: Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (16-Y 4-N 1-A)
- 01/20/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/21/2025 - House: Read second time
- 01/21/2025 - House: Transportation Amendments agreed to
- 01/21/2025 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 01/21/2025 - House: Printed as engrossed 25102621D-E
- 01/22/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (81-Y 16-N)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 01/23/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 01/27/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2096)
- 02/06/2025 - Senate: Reported from Transportation with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 2-N 2-A)
- 02/06/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/06/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106818D-S1
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107355D-S2
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Transportation Substitute rejected
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (33-Y 3-N)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by (85-Y 12-N)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2096)
- 02/20/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/20/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2096ER)
- 02/20/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2096)
- 02/20/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/05/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025
- 03/05/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/02/2025 - House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (86-Y 9-N)
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/2025 - Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/02/2025 - House: Reenrolled
- 04/02/2025 - House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2096ER2)
- 04/02/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/02/2025 - House: Enacted, Chapter 652 (Effective 07/01/26)
