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Bill	Fishing privileges; revocation of license by MRC.	Provides that when the Marine Resources Commission (the Commission) revokes a fishing license for a violation of the tidal fisheries law, it shall revoke only the particular type of license that is applicable to the fishery in which the violation occurred. The Commission may revoke other licenses upon a second violation within five years. The bill authorizes the Commission to revoke a person's underlying privileges when certain criteria are met. Under current law, the Commission is authorized to revoke all of the fishing licenses a person has been granted upon a first violation, irrespective of the location and type of fish described in the license. The bill also requires the Commission to accept credit card payment of any civil penalty it assesses for fishing under a revoked license or privileges.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1573	Virginia HB 1573 (2017)	bill	Commissions Boards and Institutions Generally Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters	enacted	Gordon C. Helsel, Jr.	5	19	6	2017-01-02	2017-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/d8915b12-606b-4f0d-88b9-dd401311493b	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1573	11a06683214f3b4e162ec4788ec505c1469e966c5edffbbf53723b98cd6dbd35	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1573 (2017) — Fishing privileges; revocation of license by MRC.

Provides that when the Marine Resources Commission (the Commission) revokes a fishing license for a violation of the tidal fisheries law, it shall revoke only the particular type of license that is applicable to the fishery in which the violation occurred. The Commission may revoke other licenses upon a second violation within five years. The bill authorizes the Commission to revoke a person's underlying privileges when certain criteria are met. Under current law, the Commission is authorized to revoke all of the fishing licenses a person has been granted upon a first violation, irrespective of the location and type of fish described in the license. The bill also requires the Commission to accept credit card payment of any civil penalty it assesses for fishing under a revoked license or privileges.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0630) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1573ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17105102D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100622D (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Printed as engrossed 17105102D-EH1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 21–19 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 96–1 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — 8–7 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (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 17100622D 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 reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Committee substitute agreed to 17105102D-H1
• 2017-02-03 Amendment by Delegate Bloxom agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB1573EH1
• 2017-02-03 Printed as engrossed 17105102D-EH1
• 2017-02-06 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 1-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
• 2017-03-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 630 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d8915b12-606b-4f0d-88b9-dd401311493b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).