---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health, Department of and Board of; mitigating the risks of radon."
description: "Health, Department of and Board of; mitigating the risks of radon."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1885"
citation: "Virginia HB 1885 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hazardous Substances or Chemicals", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard P. Bell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-03"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8539b8b5-a562-4915-abd3-285229d7f294"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1885"
source_hash: "996a1e1b62276b06b03e757119694fb09cfa6fd65e403ebdae41b4c883e86781"
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 1885 (2019) — Health, Department of and Board of; mitigating the risks of radon.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0279)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0279)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1885ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1885ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105745D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1885H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102466D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1885)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Richard P. Bell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102466D `introduction`
- **2019-01-03** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19105745D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1885H1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 279 (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/8539b8b5-a562-4915-abd3-285229d7f294`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).