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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Agritourism activities; adds horseback riding to definition."
+description: "Agritourism activities; horseback riding andstabling. Adds horseback riding or stabling to the definitionof \"agritourism activity.\" Agritourism activities have limited liabilityfor the inherent risks of the activity under certain conditions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 24"
+citation: "Virginia SB 24 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. Chapman Petersen"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-11-18"
+last_action: "2020-03-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7f54fac-6478-48f0-889d-0fdb7c0c0c33"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB24"
+source_hash: "ca9461bef4e9cc346bc475fd70de40ff5d21aed28096428d9c599828a9851872"
+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 SB 24 (2020) — Agritourism activities; adds horseback riding to definition.
+
+Agritourism activities; horseback riding andstabling. Adds horseback riding or stabling to the definitionof "agritourism activity." Agritourism activities have limited liabilityfor the inherent risks of the activity under certain conditions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0411)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0411)
+2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB24ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB24ER)
+3. **Engrossed by Senate as amended SB24E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB24E)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB24)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB24)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-11-18** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100596D `introduction`
+- **2019-11-18** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB24)
+- **2020-01-14** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-17** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-17** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2020-01-17** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2020-01-17** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB24E
+- **2020-01-17** Printed as engrossed 20100596D-E
+- **2020-01-20** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (SB24E)
+- **2020-02-18** Placed on Calendar
+- **2020-02-18** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-18** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-26** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-02** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99--Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-03-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (SB24ER)
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 411 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7f54fac-6478-48f0-889d-0fdb7c0c0c33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+