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type: "Bill"
title: "Red salamander; designating as state salamander."
description: "Designates the red salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) as the state salamander of Virginia."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 459"
citation: "Virginia HB 459 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boundaries", "Jurisdiction and Emblems of the Commonwealth", "General Provisions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eileen Filler-Corn"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-07"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f60942fb-8b61-43c2-90d4-3e41dc8bda3e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB459"
source_hash: "50a4e53bf311cf9b353d0ca3e0e00bca285fdff1e601fa5a8f1dd1deb488b9a8"
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 459 (2018) — Red salamander; designating as state salamander.
Designates the red salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) as the state salamander of Virginia.
## 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 (HB459ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB459ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101330D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB459)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House — **961** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **391** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **202** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **62** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **141** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Eileen Filler-Corn — primary (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101330D `introduction`
- **2018-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 284 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f60942fb-8b61-43c2-90d4-3e41dc8bda3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).