republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1018.md

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Bill	Investigators; powers, enforcement of certain tobacco laws.	Powers of investigators; enforcement of certaintobacco laws. Authorizes investigators with the Office of theAttorney General to seize cigarettes that are unlawfully sold, possessed,distributed, transported, imported, or otherwise held and to accompany and participate with special agents of the Alcoholic Beverage ControlBoard or other law-enforcement officials engaging in an enforcementaction involving counterfeit and unstamped cigarettes.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1018	Virginia HB 1018 (2024)	bill		enacted	Tony O. Wilt	3	25	6	2024-01-10	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/a54bbb3b-d584-4388-8114-c19db09e464d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1018	d1b7a26e869cbeb1b1e9432aca78161a0f0311bfbb9eadd4b8f0fb83d32756ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1018 (2024) — Investigators; powers, enforcement of certain tobacco laws.

Powers of investigators; enforcement of certaintobacco laws. Authorizes investigators with the Office of theAttorney General to seize cigarettes that are unlawfully sold, possessed,distributed, transported, imported, or otherwise held and to accompany and participate with special agents of the Alcoholic Beverage ControlBoard or other law-enforcement officials engaging in an enforcementaction involving counterfeit and unstamped cigarettes.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0540 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1018ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100798D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100798D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Impact statement from DPB (HB1018)
• 2024-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-08 Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-11 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1018ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (HB1018ER)
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 540 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a54bbb3b-d584-4388-8114-c19db09e464d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).