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+type: "Bill"
+title: "License plates, special; Navy and Marine Corps Medal."
+description: "Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal or for unremarried surviving spouses of such persons."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1832"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1832 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James A. \"Jay\" Leftwich"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-01-02"
+last_action: "2019-02-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3284783c-d369-41af-8c44-7d8db34366d4"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1832"
+source_hash: "f101862a4a6e0c8d45d7c585b0a386b0baff41a1d8bdfb38c99c2a07c3022fba"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 1832 (2019) — License plates, special; Navy and Marine Corps Medal.
+
+Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal or for unremarried surviving spouses of such persons.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0074)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0074)
+2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1832)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1832ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1832ER)
+4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104952D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1832H1)
+5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101267D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1832)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)
+- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher P. Stolle — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101267D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-02** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-11** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-15** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-22** Committee substitute agreed to 19104952D-H1
+- **2019-01-22** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1832H1
+- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
+- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
+- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 74 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3284783c-d369-41af-8c44-7d8db34366d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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