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type: "Bill"
title: "License plates, special; KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON."
description: "License plates, special; KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1535"
citation: "Virginia HB 1535 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry L. Austin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/083bacf6-766e-46e4-b454-241e3f4e6d1c"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1535"
source_hash: "72e168164fa18a0ef31fa4e5a7fec4ec69b5901eb21de699111e47be1a139834"
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 1535 (2018) — License plates, special; KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1535ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1535ER)
2. **House: Presented and ordered printed 18104338D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1535)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 18104338D `introduction`
- **2018-01-19** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 157 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/083bacf6-766e-46e4-b454-241e3f4e6d1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).