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type: "Bill"
title: "Crab scraping; possession of hard crabs."
description: "Crab scraping; possession of hard crabs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 577"
citation: "Virginia HB 577 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert S. Bloxom, Jr."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d24205f9-d1d7-47b9-853d-01d652dbe6e3"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB577"
source_hash: "05e896f6e1e6b0458168b4ae56fc26e81bf8a0a4d157c60529a6bbbcfb14f381"
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 577 (2018) — Crab scraping; possession of hard crabs.
## 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 (HB577ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB577ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100116D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB577)
## Votes
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **220** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100116D `introduction`
- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Assigned ACNRsub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-01-30** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2018-01-30** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-01-31** 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
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 115 (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/d24205f9-d1d7-47b9-853d-01d652dbe6e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).