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+type: "Bill"
+title: "License plates, special; Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal."
+description: "Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal or for unremarried surviving spouses of such persons."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2220"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2220 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Israel D. O'Quinn"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-03-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/120525fd-ba0f-4585-aa9b-3c0ebb4d92c7"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2220"
+source_hash: "1c984adfb126eb607dd33d7a04a198305c417d7ebe91316b906c997dd8784e8e"
+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 2220 (2019) — License plates, special; Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.
+
+Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary 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 (CHAP0194)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0194)
+2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2220)
+3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2220ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2220ER)
+4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105560D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2220H1)
+5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100688D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2220)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Transportation — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
+- Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
+- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
+- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffrey L. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100688D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-29** Committee substitute agreed to 19105560D-H1
+- **2019-01-29** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2220H1
+- **2019-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-30** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2019-01-30** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2019-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-31** 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
+- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 194 (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/120525fd-ba0f-4585-aa9b-3c0ebb4d92c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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