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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Nursing, Board of; application for license or certification by military spouse, expedited review."
+description: "Nursing, Board of; application for license or certification by military spouse, expedited review."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2129"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2129 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Armed Forces", "Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth R. Guzman"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-03-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a552248a-35a0-4e45-9b10-ec921be0365c"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2129"
+source_hash: "ef132852d6cdd7ce0a7ebeec6d23673a89baf70f9fa2264721ae2c606cfb0c81"
+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 2129 (2019) — Nursing, Board of; application for license or certification by military spouse, expedited review.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0287)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0287)
+2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2129AH)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2129ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2129ER)
+4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103622D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2129)
+5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19103622D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2129E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Elizabeth R. Guzman — primary (person)
+- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103622D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-25** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2019-01-25** Engrossed by House as amended HB2129E
+- **2019-01-25** Printed as engrossed 19103622D-E
+- **2019-01-28** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Health Professions `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
+- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 287 (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/a552248a-35a0-4e45-9b10-ec921be0365c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+