---
type: "Bill"
title: "Blind or vision impaired; rehabilitative manufacturing and services industries."
description: "Updates terminology regarding manufacturing and service industries operated by the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired for the employment of individuals who are blind or vision impaired."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1061"
citation: "Virginia HB 1061 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Persons with Disabilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy K.L. Tran"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/838d29ff-3dfc-486e-a3b7-8b35f03ebc27"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1061"
source_hash: "a311f22462c0fdb4aa238ad974b6e0b5da07c76f91aec89c41cf2acc7d853919"
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 1061 (2018) — Blind or vision impaired; rehabilitative manufacturing and services industries.

Updates terminology regarding manufacturing and service industries operated by the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired for the employment of individuals who are blind or vision impaired.

## 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 (HB1061ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1061ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18106307D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1061H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101596D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1061)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **100–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101596D `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-09** Committee substitute agreed to 18106307D-H1
- **2018-02-09** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1061H1
- **2018-02-12** Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-13** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `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 184 (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/838d29ff-3dfc-486e-a3b7-8b35f03ebc27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).