republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-288.md

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Bill	Stationary blinds for waterfowl; providing location of blinds to Department of Wildlife Resources.	Stationary blinds for waterfowl; providing location of blinds to Department of Wildlife Resources. Requires a person that is obtaining a waterfowl blind license, at the time of the transaction, to provide the unique location of each stationary waterfowl blind to the Department of Wildlife Resources, identified as standardized latitude and longitude coordinates, using the decimal degrees format with a minimum of five digit precision. The bill further requires the Department to publish such coordinates by November 1 of each year, excluding any customer personal information, on its website in a searchable, publicly accessible, and conspicuous manner. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 288	Virginia HB 288 (2024)	bill		enacted	Bill Wiley	4	33	6	2024-01-05	2024-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/ea8149e9-3a6d-4063-9bd2-b9bc03972630	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB288	8992e743dfd65233f78fbf21e73c12b383c522ec754b21cdda6ded743a81c4d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 288 (2024) — Stationary blinds for waterfowl; providing location of blinds to Department of Wildlife Resources.

Stationary blinds for waterfowl; providing location of blinds to Department of Wildlife Resources. Requires a person that is obtaining a waterfowl blind license, at the time of the transaction, to provide the unique location of each stationary waterfowl blind to the Department of Wildlife Resources, identified as standardized latitude and longitude coordinates, using the decimal degrees format with a minimum of five digit precision. The bill further requires the Department to publish such coordinates by November 1 of each year, excluding any customer personal information, on its website in a searchable, publicly accessible, and conspicuous manner. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0186 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24106866D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB288ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103759D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (90-Y 9-N) — 89–9 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Wiley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103759D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB288)
• 2024-01-22 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-22 Subcommittee adopted substitute
• 2024-01-22 Subcommittee passed by for the day
• 2024-01-29 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-31 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (21-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Committee substitute printed 24106866D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Impact statement from DPB (HB288H1)
• 2024-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 24106866D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-05 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB288H1 substitution
• 2024-02-06 Read third time and passed House (90-Y 9-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 VOTE: Passage (90-Y 9-N) passage
• 2024-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB288ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB288ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 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
• 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 186 (effective 1/1/25) executive-signature
• 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0186)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea8149e9-3a6d-4063-9bd2-b9bc03972630. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).