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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Fishing; free day due to inclement weather."
+description: "Permits the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to designate a substitute free day in the event that a free day is canceled as a result of inclement weather. The bill contains an emergency clause."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 635"
+citation: "Virginia HB 635 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Game", "Inland Fisheries and Boating"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Israel D. O'Quinn"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2018-01-09"
+last_action: "2018-03-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfbb387c-4ff5-440b-9e4d-8be9c4c37e84"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB635"
+source_hash: "7929830f59e16d60e8fd9d9c2b2be3dcfe894c5fad07c2bbe261264c99fa2648"
+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 635 (2018) — Fishing; free day due to inclement weather.
+
+Permits the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to designate a substitute free day in the event that a free day is canceled as a result of inclement weather. The bill contains an emergency clause.
+
+## 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 (HB635ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB635ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18100295D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB635)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
+- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
+- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
+- David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)
+- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
+- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Jill Holtzman Vogel — cosponsor (person)
+- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
+- Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18100295D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-15** Assigned ACNRsub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-01-30** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2018-01-30** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2018-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-01-31** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-22** 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
+- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 116 (effective 3/2/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfbb387c-4ff5-440b-9e4d-8be9c4c37e84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+