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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Driver's licenses and identification cards; indication of non-apparent disability."
+description: "Driver's licenses and identification cards; indication of non-apparent disability. Adds non-apparent disabilities, defined in the bill, to the list of conditions that the Department of Motor Vehicles, when requested by an applicant and upon presentation of a signed statement by a licensed physician confirming the applicant's condition, is required to indicate on such applicant's driver's license. Such requirement is also extended to identification cards. Such an indication on a person's driver's license allows for the voluntary indication of a disability that can impair communication on a motor vehicle registration."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2116"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2116 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Karen Keys-Gamarra"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-07"
+last_action: "2025-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06d2cb29-c5d2-4c85-8581-0e54427f4de5"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2116"
+source_hash: "b059298b2a099629b8f19709cb26c1efe2def07de218c5d493211ed4ebe940b7"
+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 2116 (2025) — Driver's licenses and identification cards; indication of non-apparent disability.
+
+Driver's licenses and identification cards; indication of non-apparent disability. Adds non-apparent disabilities, defined in the bill, to the list of conditions that the Department of Motor Vehicles, when requested by an applicant and upon presentation of a signed statement by a licensed physician confirming the applicant's condition, is required to indicate on such applicant's driver's license. Such requirement is also extended to identification cards. Such an indication on a person's driver's license allows for the voluntary indication of a disability that can impair communication on a motor vehicle registration.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015175.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077494.PDF)
+3. **HTRAN Sub: Department of Motor Vehicles Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1024786.HTML)
+4. **Transportation Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1027042.PDF)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1050034.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Karen Keys-Gamarra — primary (person)
+- Bonita G. Anthony — cosponsor (person)
+- Destiny LeVere Bolling — cosponsor (person)
+- Holly M. Seibold — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
+- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Marty Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael J. Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104519D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-14** Assigned Trans sub: Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-21** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2116)
+- **2025-01-23** Reported from Transportation with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-23** Committee substitute printed 25105610D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2025-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-28** Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
+- **2025-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-28** Transportation Substitute agreed to
+- **2025-01-28** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
+- **2025-01-29** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-01-30** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-06** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-10** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-10** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-11** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-12** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2116)
+- **2025-02-17** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-17** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2116ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-17** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-18** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2116)
+- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 532 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0532)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06d2cb29-c5d2-4c85-8581-0e54427f4de5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+