---
type: "Bill"
title: "License plates, special; Navy and Marine Corps Medal."
description: "Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal or for unremarried surviving spouses of such persons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1832"
citation: "Virginia HB 1832 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James A. \"Jay\" Leftwich"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-02"
last_action: "2019-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3284783c-d369-41af-8c44-7d8db34366d4"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1832"
source_hash: "f101862a4a6e0c8d45d7c585b0a386b0baff41a1d8bdfb38c99c2a07c3022fba"
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 1832 (2019) — License plates, special; Navy and Marine Corps Medal.

Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Navy and Marine Corps 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 (CHAP0074)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0074)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1832)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1832ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1832ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104952D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1832H1)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101267D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1832)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James A. "Jay" Leftwich — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher P. Stolle — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101267D `introduction`
- **2019-01-02** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-22** Committee substitute agreed to 19104952D-H1
- **2019-01-22** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1832H1
- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Enrolled
- **2019-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 15, 2019
- **2019-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 74 (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/3284783c-d369-41af-8c44-7d8db34366d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).