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type: "Bill"
title: "Public schools; instruction on the hazards of nicotine vapor products."
description: "Requires the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to develop and the Department of Education to distribute to each local school division educational materials concerning the health and safety risks of using tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, and alternative nicotine products. The bill requires instruction concerning the health and safety risks of using such products be provided in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth, consistent with such educational materials."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1881"
citation: "Virginia HB 1881 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Tobacco and Tobacco Products"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Keam"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-03"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d885670-23b5-417d-b94f-60981ab16dbf"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1881"
source_hash: "ba401df828f2f03765967296c59e5435cc9f72238ede9b1cc9e243cd7ee29226"
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 1881 (2019) — Public schools; instruction on the hazards of nicotine vapor products.
Requires the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to develop and the Department of Education to distribute to each local school division educational materials concerning the health and safety risks of using tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, and alternative nicotine products. The bill requires instruction concerning the health and safety risks of using such products be provided in each public elementary and secondary school in the Commonwealth, consistent with such educational materials.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0577)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0577)
2. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB1881)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1881ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1881ER)
4. **House: Committee substitute printed 19104685D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1881H1)
5. **House: Committee substitute printed 19106156D-H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1881H2)
6. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101733D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1881)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education with substitute — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **370** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **90** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **80** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with substitute — **210** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mark L. Keam — primary (person)
- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101733D `introduction`
- **2019-01-03** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute from Education rejected 19104685D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute from Appropriations agreed to 19106156D-H2
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1881H2
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 577 (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/5d885670-23b5-417d-b94f-60981ab16dbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).