---
type: "Bill"
title: "Menhaden; total allowable landings."
description: "Menhaden; total allowable landings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 909"
citation: "Virginia SB 909 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard H. Stuart"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-12-27"
last_action: "2017-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b537c62d-b20a-4c5d-ae94-22e67a45fea1"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB909"
source_hash: "a7c2c42f3105c0aed6976454958c96bcea585edc163c5179e9f6910b7c5ce163"
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 909 (2017) — Menhaden; total allowable landings.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0072)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0072)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB909ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB909ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101505D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB909)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate — **34–6** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **18–3** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **79–15** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Richard H. Stuart — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101505D `introduction`
- **2016-12-27** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-10** Passed House (79-Y 15-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2017-02-13** Enrolled
- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
- **2017-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-14** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
- **2017-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
- **2017-02-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 72 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b537c62d-b20a-4c5d-ae94-22e67a45fea1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).