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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Police and court records; expungement of records, absolute pardon."
+description: "Police and court records; expungement of records, absolute pardon."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2278"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2278 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Cole"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-02-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7237a19-2452-4a98-aea3-283472419569"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2278"
+source_hash: "2dbeeb885f9813cabf06557e3404707fcc80daf8beac8db478b040f56679e2f8"
+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 2278 (2019) — Police and court records; expungement of records, absolute pardon.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0181)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0181)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2278ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2278ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100183D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2278)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark L. Cole — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100183D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-22** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `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`
+- **2019-02-11** 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 181 (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/c7237a19-2452-4a98-aea3-283472419569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+