---
type: "Bill"
title: "Trout fishing in stocked waters; equalizes for residents and nonresidents requirements to fish."
description: "Trout fishing in stocked waters. Equalizesfor residents and nonresidents requirements to fish in designatedstocked trout waters. The bill requires either such person to possess(i) a regular season state or county fishing license or a trip fishinglicense valid for at least five days and (ii) a trout license ora special lifetime trout fishing license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1402"
citation: "Virginia SB 1402 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/210d22c5-0d44-4c5c-bb0c-e820c7b2e46c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1402"
source_hash: "a1ad4ff611218e0ba87e846f8265ea1f71884d778bfb15f122e39d3fb44e98ed"
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 1402 (2021) — Trout fishing in stocked waters; equalizes for residents and nonresidents requirements to fish.

Trout fishing in stocked waters. Equalizesfor residents and nonresidents requirements to fish in designatedstocked trout waters. The bill requires either such person to possess(i) a regular season state or county fishing license or a trip fishinglicense valid for at least five days and (ii) a trout license ora special lifetime trout fishing license.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0280** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0280)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102080D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1402)
3. **SB1402ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1402ER)

## Votes

- Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 1-N) — **13–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102080D `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-19** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB1402)
- **2021-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-05** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- **2021-02-10** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-15** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
- **2021-02-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB1402ER)
- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2021
- **2021-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 280 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/210d22c5-0d44-4c5c-bb0c-e820c7b2e46c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).