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type: "Bill"
title: "License plates, special; BELIEVING IN THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE SINCE 1927."
description: "Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for members and supporters of the Virginia Future Farmers of America (FFA) Foundation bearing the legend WE ARE THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE FFA. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 761"
citation: "Virginia HB 761 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Steven Landes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/490c980b-aea2-4de7-9f11-c9c20407adf6"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB761"
source_hash: "aa17eb21000f0a16aaca6a2f4f4adb59c15a7e08535f5643ab12973b93d85464"
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 761 (2018) — License plates, special; BELIEVING IN THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE SINCE 1927.
Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates for members and supporters of the Virginia Future Farmers of America (FFA) Foundation bearing the legend WE ARE THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE FFA. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0007)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0007)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB761ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB761ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101256D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB761)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 18101256D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB761E)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with amendments — **210** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
- Benjamin L. Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Brenda L. Pogge — cosponsor (person)
- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel W. Marshall, III — cosponsor (person)
- Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy J. Byron — cosponsor (person)
- M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
- Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101256D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-26** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-01-26** Engrossed by House as amended HB761E
- **2018-01-26** Printed as engrossed 18101256D-E
- **2018-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-01-30** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-13** Enrolled
- **2018-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-14** Signed by President
- **2018-02-15** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/18
- **2018-02-15** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2018
- **2018-02-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 7 (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/490c980b-aea2-4de7-9f11-c9c20407adf6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).