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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Military retirement benefits; marital share."
+description: "Military retirement benefits; marital share."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1988"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1988 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Armed Forces", "Domestic Relations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David J. Toscano"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-01-07"
+last_action: "2019-03-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/097982b0-6f8a-4790-bf5b-2ead34e77d99"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1988"
+source_hash: "fe4f38036b4ce9b40bcf95d6f5396c5207900ee18be521769e33b19f72da97fd"
+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 1988 (2019) — Military retirement benefits; marital share.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0304)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1988ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1988ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102650D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1988)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **12–3** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate — **35–3** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David J. Toscano — primary (person)
+- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102650D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-10** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-02-01** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-15** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-15** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-15** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
+- **2019-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 304 (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/097982b0-6f8a-4790-bf5b-2ead34e77d99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+