---
type: "Bill"
title: "Red salamander; designating as state salamander."
description: "Designates the red salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) as the state salamander of Virginia."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 459"
citation: "Virginia HB 459 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boundaries", "Jurisdiction and Emblems of the Commonwealth", "General Provisions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eileen Filler-Corn"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-07"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f60942fb-8b61-43c2-90d4-3e41dc8bda3e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB459"
source_hash: "50a4e53bf311cf9b353d0ca3e0e00bca285fdff1e601fa5a8f1dd1deb488b9a8"
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 459 (2018) — Red salamander; designating as state salamander.

Designates the red salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) as the state salamander of Virginia.

## 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 (HB459ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB459ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101330D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB459)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House — **96–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–1** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **20–2** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–2** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eileen Filler-Corn — primary (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101330D `introduction`
- **2018-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 284 (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/f60942fb-8b61-43c2-90d4-3e41dc8bda3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).