---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special license plates; LUPUS AWARENESS."
description: "Special license plates; LUPUS AWARENESS. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Social Butterflies Foundation bearing the legend LUPUS AWARENESS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1722"
citation: "Virginia HB 1722 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcia S. \"Cia\" Price"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-04"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba168bff-3224-495c-bcff-17197357a16f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1722"
source_hash: "e863d8de3cbfa853f0e06111ab2c2855026a1ddb92c4b66cc3f63cdaaba60a6c"
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 1722 (2025) — Special license plates; LUPUS AWARENESS.

Special license plates; LUPUS AWARENESS. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for supporters of the Social Butterflies Foundation bearing the legend LUPUS AWARENESS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012782.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071130.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1054520.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 0-N) — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102685D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-04** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Assigned Trans sub: Department of Motor Vehicles `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-21** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1722)
- **2025-01-23** Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-29** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-30** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Reported from Transportation and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-13** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1722ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1722)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 72 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0072)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba168bff-3224-495c-bcff-17197357a16f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).