republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1572.md

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Bill	Marine Resources Commission; registration as commercial fisherman.	Directs the Marine Resources Commission to grant a preference for an exception to the two-year delay in the effective date of a registration as a commercial fisherman. The bill requires the preference to benefit a license applicant who is a member of the immediate family or is a documented employee of the commercial fisherman who is retiring.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1572	Virginia HB 1572 (2017)	bill	Commissions Boards and Institutions Generally Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters	enacted	Gordon C. Helsel, Jr.	3	15	8	2017-01-02	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/0d17ae0c-a399-4a42-9816-1a0253484911	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1572	1d8cc33d14437a59af1397bc8df2094593a7e6b9c1dccec3c4bc8ecf63dac7ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1572 (2017) — Marine Resources Commission; registration as commercial fisherman.

Directs the Marine Resources Commission to grant a preference for an exception to the two-year delay in the effective date of a registration as a commercial fisherman. The bill requires the preference to benefit a license applicant who is a member of the immediate family or is a documented employee of the commercial fisherman who is retiring.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0339) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1572ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100531D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — 14–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — primary (person)
• Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-02 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100531D introduction
• 2017-01-02 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-01-12 Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake referral-committee
• 2017-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-24 Enrolled
• 2017-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-24 Signed by President
• 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
• 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 339 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d17ae0c-a399-4a42-9816-1a0253484911. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).