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type: "Bill"
title: "Waterfowl blinds; blinds in locality where certain hunting prohibited."
description: "Waterfowl blinds in locality where certain hunting prohibited. Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries not to license any stationary waterfowl blind in any area of Hunting Creek, Little Hunting Creek, or Dogue Creek in which the local governing body prohibits by ordinance the hunting of birds with a firearm. This bill is identical to HB 173."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 435"
citation: "Virginia SB 435 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Surovell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0dc738c5-1451-4e3f-b25b-a70f0b40a097"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB435"
source_hash: "bcf024b3cb2b21a6b991549a6cb22b4eebe38a9343c54433856287a75ad7f375"
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 SB 435 (2020) — Waterfowl blinds; blinds in locality where certain hunting prohibited.
Waterfowl blinds in locality where certain hunting prohibited. Directs the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries not to license any stationary waterfowl blind in any area of Hunting Creek, Little Hunting Creek, or Dogue Creek in which the local governing body prohibits by ordinance the hunting of birds with a firearm. This bill is identical to HB 173.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0308)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0308)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB435ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB435ER)
3. **Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB435S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB435S1)
4. **Impact statement from DPB (SB435)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB435)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (56-Y 41-N 1-A) — **5541** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (12-Y 9-N) — **129** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)
- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101208D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (SB435)
- **2020-01-14** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-14** Committee substitute printed 20105779D-S1 `substitution`
- **2020-01-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-17** Reading of substitute waived
- **2020-01-17** Committee substitute agreed to 20105779D-S1
- **2020-01-17** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB435S1
- **2020-01-20** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (SB435S1)
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (12-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed House (56-Y 41-N 1-A) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** VOTE: Passage (56-Y 41-N 1-A)
- **2020-02-27** Enrolled
- **2020-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB435ER)
- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-10** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
- **2020-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Approved by Governor-Chapter 308 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0dc738c5-1451-4e3f-b25b-a70f0b40a097`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).