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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Forest products, hauling; expands definition to include rough-sawn green lumber."
+description: "Expands for the purpose of issuing an overweight permit for hauling forest products the definition of forest products to include rough-sawn green lumber."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 125"
+citation: "Virginia HB 125 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Animal Care and Food", "Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Terry L. Austin"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-12-18"
+last_action: "2018-02-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/522cda6c-d5c3-4643-892f-3b2d018962c0"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB125"
+source_hash: "377286a029413d6d5542ba713c960cb2bcc691fa0ea209ebc7e8d755f1702090"
+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 125 (2018) — Forest products, hauling; expands definition to include rough-sawn green lumber.
+
+Expands for the purpose of issuing an overweight permit for hauling forest products the definition of forest products to include rough-sawn green lumber.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0012)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0012)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB125ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB125ER)
+3. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105437D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB125H1)
+4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100732D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB125)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
+- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-18** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100732D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-18** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-16** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-26** Committee substitute agreed to 18105437D-H1
+- **2018-01-26** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB125H1
+- **2018-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-01-30** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-13** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-13** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-14** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/18
+- **2018-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2018
+- **2018-02-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 12 (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/522cda6c-d5c3-4643-892f-3b2d018962c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+