---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chief Medical Examiner, Office of the; central office and facilities."
description: "Chief Medical Examiner, Office of the; central office and facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2057"
citation: "Virginia HB 2057 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5aca6882-9eb2-4425-b753-1bd08874d50b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2057"
source_hash: "33e7da282b989f33ddda245ff86ebd011c7cb6ce428d8182baca137fcf63e30b"
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 2057 (2019) — Chief Medical Examiner, Office of the; central office and facilities.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0168)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0168)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2057ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2057ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101793D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2057)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101793D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **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 Education and Health `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 168 (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/5aca6882-9eb2-4425-b753-1bd08874d50b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).