republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1025.md

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Bill	Deer, bear, turkey, or elk; claiming after struck by motor vehicle.	Claiming a deer, bear, turkey, or elk struckby motor vehicle. Allows any deer, bear, turkey, or elk thatappears to have been killed in a collision with a motor vehicle tobe claimed by and awarded to any person. Current law allows a deeror bear to only be claimed by and awarded to the driver of a motorvehicle who collides with such animal.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1025	Virginia HB 1025 (2024)	bill		enacted	Tony O. Wilt	3	29	10	2024-01-10	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/bb37e1ea-1608-4008-9f57-fb3154c125fc	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1025	c0cc74a60df8b122bac62c059c6d0ed5e52b84560fbdb49cbdb2d6a58951e7fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1025 (2024) — Deer, bear, turkey, or elk; claiming after struck by motor vehicle.

Claiming a deer, bear, turkey, or elk struckby motor vehicle. Allows any deer, bear, turkey, or elk thatappears to have been killed in a collision with a motor vehicle tobe claimed by and awarded to any person. Current law allows a deeror bear to only be claimed by and awarded to the driver of a motorvehicle who collides with such animal.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0083 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1025ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104241D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) — 37–3 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) — 36–4 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) — 37–3 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: (98-Y 0-N 1-A) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by 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 24104241D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB1025)
• 2024-01-23 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N) passage
• 2024-02-20 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-20 Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) passage
• 2024-02-20 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-20 Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-26 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1025ER) passage
• 2024-02-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB1025ER)
• 2024-02-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-02-28 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
• 2024-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 83 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb37e1ea-1608-4008-9f57-fb3154c125fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).