HB 775 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

License plate reader systems; use by law-enforcement agencies, civil penalty.

Summary
License plate reader systems; civil penalty. Provides requirements for the use of license plate reader systems, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill limits the use of such systems to scanning, detecting, and recording data about vehicles and license plate numbers for the purpose of identifying a vehicle that is (i) associated with a wanted, missing, or endangered person or human trafficking; (ii) stolen; (iii) involved in an active law-enforcement investigation; or (iv) in the vicinity of a recent crime and may be connected to that crime. The bill authorizes and requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to establish a permitting process for installing and using such systems in state highway rights-of-way. This bill incorporates HB 1037.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Nov 19, 2024
Floor votes · House of Delegates Feb 9, 2024

How they voted

6627
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 100
Feb 9, 2024
D Democratic51
40 Yea 8 Nay 3
78% Yea
R Republican49
26 Yea 19 Nay 4
53% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
20
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Feb 26, 2024
Committee
Rereferred to Courts of Justice
upper
Feb 26, 2024
Committee
Rereferred from Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 12, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Transportation
upper
Feb 9, 2024
Lower · Passed
VOTE: Passage (66-Y 27-N)
lower
Feb 9, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (66-Y 27-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation with substitute (14-Y 6-N)
lower
Jan 26, 2024
Committee
Assigned CT & I sub: Technology and Innovation
lower
Jan 9, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors

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