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type: "Bill"
title: "Fishing; free day due to inclement weather."
description: "Permits the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to designate a substitute free day in the event that a free day is canceled as a result of inclement weather. The bill contains an emergency clause."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 635"
citation: "Virginia HB 635 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Game", "Inland Fisheries and Boating"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Israel D. O'Quinn"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfbb387c-4ff5-440b-9e4d-8be9c4c37e84"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB635"
source_hash: "7929830f59e16d60e8fd9d9c2b2be3dcfe894c5fad07c2bbe261264c99fa2648"
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 635 (2018) — Fishing; free day due to inclement weather.
Permits the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to designate a substitute free day in the event that a free day is canceled as a result of inclement weather. The bill contains an emergency clause.
## 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 (HB635ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB635ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18100295D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB635)
## Votes
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
- Jill Holtzman Vogel — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18100295D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Assigned ACNRsub: Subcommittee #2 `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 116 (effective 3/2/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfbb387c-4ff5-440b-9e4d-8be9c4c37e84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).