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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicle insurance policies; foster parents and foster children."
+description: "Prohibits an insurer from refusing to issue or failing to renew a motor vehicle insurance policy solely because of the status of the applicant or policyholder, as applicable, as a foster care provider or a person in foster care."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1883"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1883 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-01-03"
+last_action: "2019-03-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8df5fd4a-3688-4264-ab48-755975cdc7a7"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1883"
+source_hash: "9ffe5dd107d9d84971036ea61a24fd72fe695a8f132dcdb6c9aed3cf623b6a2e"
+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 1883 (2019) — Motor vehicle insurance policies; foster parents and foster children.
+
+Prohibits an insurer from refusing to issue or failing to renew a motor vehicle insurance policy solely because of the status of the applicant or policyholder, as applicable, as a foster care provider or a person in foster care.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0334)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1883ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1883ER)
+3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104986D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1883H1)
+4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101891D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1883)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
+- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
+- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101891D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-03** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-22** Committee substitute agreed to 19104986D-H1
+- **2019-01-22** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1883H1
+- **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 Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
+- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 334 (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/8df5fd4a-3688-4264-ab48-755975cdc7a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+