SB 376 Virginia 2027 session
Motor vehicle collisions; preservation and collection of certain mobile telephone data.
Motor vehicle collisions; preservation and collection of certain mobile telephone data; collision reports. Allows an attorney who has certified that he represents a party involved in a motor vehicle collision to request in writing that the mobile telephone provider of another party alleged to have caused or contributed to the cause of such collision preserve for a period of 180 days from the date of such preservation request certain information related to such other party's mobile telephone. In addition, the bill requires any collision report filed as a result of such collision to include the mobile telephone number, mobile telephone provider, and International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number for any driver involved in a motor vehicle collision. The bill also creates a rebuttable presumption of spoliation of evidence where a person refuses to provide such information to a law-enforcement officer for such collision report and where such refusal materially prevents another person involved in such collision from showing liability for the collision.
Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Floor vote
- Passed
- Enacted
Passed one chamber — last recorded action July 21, 2026
Continued from last session
Passage likelihood
Not enough recorded signal to estimate this bill's chances.
State-level impact
State-level impact data is not available for this bill. The source text does not contain a per-state funding formula or scored breakdown, so no figures are shown.
Official actions
- Continued from last session
- Continued to next session in Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
- Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (2/25/2026 8:39 am)
- House subcommittee offered
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute and referring to Appropriations (6-Y 4-N)
- Assigned HCJ sub: Civil
- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- Read first time
- Placed on Calendar
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB376)
- Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 16-N 0-A)
- Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute as amended (Voice Vote)
- Senator Surovell Amendment agreed to
- Reading of amendment waived (Voice Vote)
- Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- Read second time
- Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- Rules suspended
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB376)
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (2/6/2026 11:02 am)
- Committee substitute printed 26106851D-S1
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 2-N 1-A)
- Senate committee offered
- Fiscal Impact statement From VCSC (1/23/2026 11:02 am)
- Rereferred from Transportation to Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N)
- Referred to Committee on Transportation
- Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104875D