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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Land's End Wildlife Mgmt. Area; DWR to grant & convey an ingress-egress easement & right-of-way."
+description: "Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Wildlife Resources to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Land's End Wildlife Management Area to Joseph C. Frank III, Betty J. Frank, Jacob C. Ackerman, and Crystal F. Ackerman. The easement will allow ingress and egress from State Route 625 (Salem Church Road) to the grantees' properties."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 879"
+citation: "Virginia HB 879 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hillary Pugh Kent"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40a9bd4d-f36a-470b-ba23-9a8e203a70de"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB879"
+source_hash: "aab5280ee65516af7913dd494c52f85b79073bd23a648d933db45b32b827a3a8"
+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 879 (2024) — Land's End Wildlife Mgmt. Area; DWR to grant & convey an ingress-egress easement & right-of-way.
+
+Conveyance of easement. Authorizes the Department of Wildlife Resources to grant and convey an easement and right-of-way at Land's End Wildlife Management Area to Joseph C. Frank III, Betty J. Frank, Jacob C. Ackerman, and Crystal F. Ackerman. The easement will allow ingress and egress from State Route 625 (Salem Church Road) to the grantees' properties.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0073** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0073)
+2. **HB879ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB879ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100731D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB879)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (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
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hillary Pugh Kent — primary (person)
+- Richard H. Stuart — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100731D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-23** Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-01-29** Impact statement from DPB (HB879)
+- **2024-01-31** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-06** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2024-02-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-19** Reported from Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-21** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-27** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-02-27** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB879ER) `passage`
+- **2024-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (HB879ER)
+- **2024-02-27** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-01** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 73 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-14** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0073)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40a9bd4d-f36a-470b-ba23-9a8e203a70de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+