republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-1152.md

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Bill	Beehive Grant Program; DACS and Consumer Services to cease reviewing applications for funding.	Provides that any individual registered as a beekeeper with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) may apply for no more than three basic beehive units per year. The bill requires the Department to process applications for such units in the order in which it receives them and to cease accepting applications if the Beehive Grant Fund is exhausted. The bill authorizes the Department to use funds from the Beehive Grant Fund to fund the purchase, construction, or distribution of the beehive units and allows the Department to work cooperatively with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service to carry out the program.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 1152	Virginia HB 1152 (2018)	bill	Agriculture Animal Care and Food	enacted	Tony O. Wilt	3	17	8	2018-01-10	2018-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/bd40e755-a301-420e-970c-ca689234e4f6	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1152	991a04b6764b1c2336b82b191b145bef13a9dfd3ef33bf99ba04d0cb4af8a0da	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1152 (2018) — Beehive Grant Program; DACS and Consumer Services to cease reviewing applications for funding.

Provides that any individual registered as a beekeeper with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (the Department) may apply for no more than three basic beehive units per year. The bill requires the Department to process applications for such units in the order in which it receives them and to cease accepting applications if the Beehive Grant Fund is exhausted. The bill authorizes the Department to use funds from the Beehive Grant Fund to fund the purchase, construction, or distribution of the beehive units and allows the Department to work cooperatively with the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service to carry out the program.

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 (HB1152ER) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 18105424D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103074D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)
• R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103074D introduction
• 2018-01-10 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2018-01-19 Assigned App. sub: Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources & Technology referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2018-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2018-02-01 Committee substitute agreed to 18105424D-H1
• 2018-02-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1152H1
• 2018-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2018-02-05 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources 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 192 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd40e755-a301-420e-970c-ca689234e4f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).