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Bill	Hemp; products intended for smoking.	Hemp products intended for smoking. Providesthat it shall be legal to produce, distribute, and consume hemp productsintended for smoking. Current law is silent on the legality of suchproducts. The bill prohibits the sale to persons under age 21 ofhemp products intended for smoking.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 962	Virginia HB 962 (2020)	bill		enacted	Daniel W. Marshall, III	4	27	6	2020-01-07	2020-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/2e805c36-3502-4517-a230-7ab5667a5f92	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB962	aa0323a47893b86833b80362bb8a9feabb869c8383f3352ff4de3b76cd62d390	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 962 (2020) — Hemp; products intended for smoking.

Hemp products intended for smoking. Providesthat it shall be legal to produce, distribute, and consume hemp productsintended for smoking. Current law is silent on the legality of suchproducts. The bill prohibits the sale to persons under age 21 ofhemp products intended for smoking.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB962ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB962H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB962H1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 6-N) — 11–6 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 1-N) — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N) — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) — 37–3 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (83-Y 16-N) — 82–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daniel W. Marshall, III — primary (person)
• James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105194D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-02-02 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2020-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N)
• 2020-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-07 Committee substitute printed 20107964D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 20107964D-H1
• 2020-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB962H1
• 2020-02-11 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House (83-Y 16-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-11 VOTE: Passage (83-Y 16-N)
• 2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB962H1)
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-21 Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-24 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) passage
• 2020-02-28 Enrolled
• 2020-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB962ER)
• 2020-02-28 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-02 Signed by President
• 2020-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
• 2020-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 406 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2e805c36-3502-4517-a230-7ab5667a5f92. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).