---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wanton waste; penalty."
description: "Wanton waste; penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1613"
citation: "Virginia HB 1613 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Game", "Inland Fisheries and Boating"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James E. Edmunds, II"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-08-21"
last_action: "2019-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69a539d2-4879-4657-9104-89d3eb0f3c7a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1613"
source_hash: "c88b936f68ca5b3d5b4472ba44278e6e31eaf7655e18eba7e4e2f56786d629a9"
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 1613 (2019) — Wanton waste; penalty.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0150)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0150)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1613ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1613ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100057D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1613)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **12–1** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **22–18** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James E. Edmunds, II — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-08-21** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100057D `introduction`
- **2018-08-21** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 150 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69a539d2-4879-4657-9104-89d3eb0f3c7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).