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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle insurance policies; foster parents and foster children."
description: "Prohibits an insurer from refusing to issue or failing to renew a motor vehicle insurance policy solely because of the status of the applicant or policyholder, as applicable, as a foster care provider or a person in foster care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1883"
citation: "Virginia HB 1883 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-03"
last_action: "2019-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8df5fd4a-3688-4264-ab48-755975cdc7a7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1883"
source_hash: "9ffe5dd107d9d84971036ea61a24fd72fe695a8f132dcdb6c9aed3cf623b6a2e"
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 1883 (2019) — Motor vehicle insurance policies; foster parents and foster children.
Prohibits an insurer from refusing to issue or failing to renew a motor vehicle insurance policy solely because of the status of the applicant or policyholder, as applicable, as a foster care provider or a person in foster care.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0334)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0334)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1883ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1883ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104986D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1883H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101891D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1883)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **130** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101891D `introduction`
- **2019-01-03** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-22** Committee substitute agreed to 19104986D-H1
- **2019-01-22** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1883H1
- **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 Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 334 (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/8df5fd4a-3688-4264-ab48-755975cdc7a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).