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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hunting license; trip hunting license for residents."
+description: "Hunting license; trip hunting license for residents."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1621"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1621 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Game", "Inland Fisheries and Boating", "Hunting Laws and Permits"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hyland F. \"Buddy\" Fowler, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-10-09"
+last_action: "2019-02-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edd4064c-9ffa-417f-af9a-9e87e4db97d9"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1621"
+source_hash: "71c806c1acd916c4a4f166da82e6becf30e479acd8420f1f4a940d135cd96cf1"
+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 1621 (2019) — Hunting license; trip hunting license for residents.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0147)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0147)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1621ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1621ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100458D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1621)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — primary (person)
+- Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
+- Cheryl B. Turpin — cosponsor (person)
+- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
+- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark J. Peake — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosalyn R. Dance — cosponsor (person)
+- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-10-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100458D `introduction`
+- **2018-10-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-09** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
+- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-02-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 147 (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/edd4064c-9ffa-417f-af9a-9e87e4db97d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+