---
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).