---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Resources Authority; dredging projects."
description: "Includes within the definition of the term \"project\" any dredging program or project undertaken to benefit the economic and community development goals of a local government, other than a dredging program or dredging project undertaken for or by the Virginia Port Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1091"
citation: "Virginia HB 1091 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Authorities", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Waters of the State", "Ports and Harbors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/012c1b4b-1aab-45d4-8bbf-e153a9ccc04a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1091"
source_hash: "2b70325b9b835ae03ecce23df937daea659c0ee3ef2117250ab26160baddacc6"
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 1091 (2018) — Virginia Resources Authority; dredging projects.

Includes within the definition of the term "project" any dredging program or project undertaken to benefit the economic and community development goals of a local government, other than a dredging program or dredging project undertaken for or by the Virginia Port Authority.

## 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 (HB1091ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1091ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102293D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1091)
3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18102293D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1091E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102293D `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2018-02-05** Engrossed by House as amended HB1091E
- **2018-02-05** Printed as engrossed 18102293D-E
- **2018-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-07** 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
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 153 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/012c1b4b-1aab-45d4-8bbf-e153a9ccc04a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).