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Bill	Abandoned watercraft; destruction and disposal by localities and state agencies.	Destruction and disposal of abandoned watercraftby localities and state agencies. Allows localities and stateagencies to apply, under certain conditions, to the Department ofWildlife Resources for an authorization to destroy and dispose ofan abandoned watercraft.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1053	Virginia HB 1053 (2024)	bill		enacted	Barry D. Knight	3	27	7	2024-01-10	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/1860aec8-c7d6-4adc-a693-227487c07db5	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1053	227bd5cf20d2e6bd6c306f366b264c88e733478cc3810f6960ec3a4151534176	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1053 (2024) — Abandoned watercraft; destruction and disposal by localities and state agencies.

Destruction and disposal of abandoned watercraftby localities and state agencies. Allows localities and stateagencies to apply, under certain conditions, to the Department ofWildlife Resources for an authorization to destroy and dispose ofan abandoned watercraft.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0314 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1053ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102298D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
• Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102298D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-10 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB1053)
• 2024-01-23 Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 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 BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 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 (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-05 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-25 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1053ER) passage
• 2024-03-25 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB1053ER)
• 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 314 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0314)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1860aec8-c7d6-4adc-a693-227487c07db5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).