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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Commercial vehicles; training and testing."
+description: "Allows certain Class A driver training schools to be third party testers for the skills test component of the commercial driver's license examination. This bill has a delayed effective date of October 1, 2019, and is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2183"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2183 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Terry L. Austin"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-02-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a02ba6a4-8ddf-43a5-8a35-eb576aecc024"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2183"
+source_hash: "abe77ebac5ab9a093215b3c91519d4e25b5aced21ae5ea606f1cae6d7ce61deb"
+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 2183 (2019) — Commercial vehicles; training and testing.
+
+Allows certain Class A driver training schools to be third party testers for the skills test component of the commercial driver's license examination. This bill has a delayed effective date of October 1, 2019, and is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0155)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0155)
+2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2183)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2183ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2183ER)
+4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105132D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2183H1)
+5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104195D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2183)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104195D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-25** Committee substitute agreed to 19105132D-H1
+- **2019-01-25** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2183H1
+- **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 Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
+- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 155 (effective 10/1/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a02ba6a4-8ddf-43a5-8a35-eb576aecc024`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+