Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/va/2023/hb-2172.md

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Rights of persons with disabilities; definitions, mobility-impaired person."
+description: "Rights of persons with disabilities; definitions, mobility-impaired person."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2172"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2172 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sickles"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0996c506-95fb-4db0-b904-244dc30dd9b7"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2172"
+source_hash: "1341c948d83a8fdeb8a263293c2902fcb76d77317cba4b8728379a96af906103"
+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 2172 (2023) — Rights of persons with disabilities; definitions, mobility-impaired person.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0513** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0513)
+2. **HB2172ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2172ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100729D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2172)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sickles — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100729D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB2172)
+- **2023-02-02** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-07** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-16** Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-17** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-20** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-23** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2172ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** Impact statement from DPB (HB2172ER)
+- **2023-02-23** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-25** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 513 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0513)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0996c506-95fb-4db0-b904-244dc30dd9b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+