---
type: "Bill"
title: "Deer, bear, turkey, or elk; claiming after struck by motor vehicle."
description: "Claiming a deer, bear, turkey, or elk struckby motor vehicle. Allows any deer, bear, turkey, or elk thatappears to have been killed in a collision with a motor vehicle tobe claimed by and awarded to any person. Current law allows a deeror bear to only be claimed by and awarded to the driver of a motorvehicle who collides with such animal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1025"
citation: "Virginia HB 1025 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony O. Wilt"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb37e1ea-1608-4008-9f57-fb3154c125fc"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1025"
source_hash: "c0cc74a60df8b122bac62c059c6d0ed5e52b84560fbdb49cbdb2d6a58951e7fe"
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 1025 (2024) — Deer, bear, turkey, or elk; claiming after struck by motor vehicle.

Claiming a deer, bear, turkey, or elk struckby motor vehicle. Allows any deer, bear, turkey, or elk thatappears to have been killed in a collision with a motor vehicle tobe claimed by and awarded to any person. Current law allows a deeror bear to only be claimed by and awarded to the driver of a motorvehicle who collides with such animal.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0083** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0083)
2. **HB1025ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1025ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104241D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1025)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) — **37–3** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) — **36–4** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) — **37–3** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: (98-Y 0-N 1-A) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104241D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB1025)
- **2024-01-23** Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-31** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-06** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** VOTE: (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- **2024-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-20** Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-20** Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-26** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1025ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB1025ER)
- **2024-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 83 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-14** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb37e1ea-1608-4008-9f57-fb3154c125fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).