---
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).