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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hunting apparel; blaze pink."
+description: "Hunting apparel; blaze pink."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1939"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1939 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Game", "Inland Fisheries and Boating", "Hunting Laws and Permits", "Weapons"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James E. Edmunds, II"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f917979d-8a50-40fb-9596-c6c0b7bf9a27"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1939"
+source_hash: "103f5d2f6b32137b96e6dbf595211847b904536f4c0660caba16b092c3a15b4b"
+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 1939 (2017) — Hunting apparel; blaze pink.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0347)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0347)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1939ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1939ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102104D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1939)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **35–5** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **13–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James E. Edmunds, II — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102104D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-16** Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-02-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
+- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 347 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f917979d-8a50-40fb-9596-c6c0b7bf9a27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+