republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-120.md

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Bill	Disabled veterans, certain; special hunting and fishing licenses.	Special hunting and fishing license for certaindisabled veterans. Authorizes resident veterans who have a service-connected disability of at least 30 percent to receive from the Departmentof Wildlife Resources, at no cost or a reduced cost depending onthe veteran's disability rating, a lifetime license to hunt and freshwaterfish. Current law authorizes the provision of such license at nocost to a veteran who is totally and permanently disabled and at half-cost to a veteran who is 70 percent disabled.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 120	Virginia HB 120 (2022)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Wyatt	3	30	10	2022-01-07	2022-04-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4fb43ac0-3f4f-4929-8493-b2741d55ad44	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB120	4b54177c608e8eb3d5e4cd101510e90e1950d3637f4c15579a409e2f66bcafd6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 120 (2022) — Disabled veterans, certain; special hunting and fishing licenses.

Special hunting and fishing license for certaindisabled veterans. Authorizes resident veterans who have a service-connected disability of at least 30 percent to receive from the Departmentof Wildlife Resources, at no cost or a reduced cost depending onthe veteran's disability rating, a lifetime license to hunt and freshwaterfish. Current law authorizes the provision of such license at nocost to a veteran who is totally and permanently disabled and at half-cost to a veteran who is 70 percent disabled.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0040 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB120ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101550D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Scott A. Wyatt — primary (person)
• Bill D. Wiley — cosponsor (person)
• Chris S. Runion — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
• G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
• Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey L. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Marie E. March — cosponsor (person)
• Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
• Phillip A. Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Ronnie R. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Tara A. Durant — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Wendell S. Walker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101550D introduction
• 2022-01-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-24 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB120)
• 2022-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-26 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2022-02-02 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-02 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-02 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-02-09 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
• 2022-02-09 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-11 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-14 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-15 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-16 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-25 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-25 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-25 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-01 Enrolled
• 2022-03-01 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB120ER)
• 2022-03-02 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-01 Approved by Governor-Chapter 40 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4fb43ac0-3f4f-4929-8493-b2741d55ad44. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).