---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military retirement benefits; marital share."
description: "Military retirement benefits; marital share."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1988"
citation: "Virginia HB 1988 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Armed Forces", "Domestic Relations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David J. Toscano"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/097982b0-6f8a-4790-bf5b-2ead34e77d99"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1988"
source_hash: "fe4f38036b4ce9b40bcf95d6f5396c5207900ee18be521769e33b19f72da97fd"
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 1988 (2019) — Military retirement benefits; marital share.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0304)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0304)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1988ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1988ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102650D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1988)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice — **12–3** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **35–3** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David J. Toscano — primary (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102650D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-01** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** Enrolled
- **2019-02-15** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-15** Signed by President
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2019
- **2019-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 304 (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/097982b0-6f8a-4790-bf5b-2ead34e77d99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).