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Bill Dealers in agricultural produce. Dealers in agricultural produce. Repeals provisions relating to the licensing requirements of any person who buys, sells, solicits for sale, processes for sale or resale, resells, exchanges, negotiates, purchases, or contracts for processing or transfers any fruits and vegetables of a producer of such produce in Virginia. The bill maintains the exclusion of such person under the commission merchant licensing requirements if such person holds a license under the federal Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. The bill also makes technical changes to references to agricultural produce as a result of the repeal. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2025 HB 1837 Virginia HB 1837 (2025)
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Virginia HB 1837 (2025) — Dealers in agricultural produce.

Dealers in agricultural produce. Repeals provisions relating to the licensing requirements of any person who buys, sells, solicits for sale, processes for sale or resale, resells, exchanges, negotiates, purchases, or contracts for processing or transfers any fruits and vegetables of a producer of such produce in Virginia. The bill maintains the exclusion of such person under the commission merchant licensing requirements if such person holds a license under the federal Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. The bill also makes technical changes to references to agricultural produce as a result of the repeal.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 970 (pass) · lower
  • Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 990 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 360 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 100 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100680D filing, introduction
  • 2025-01-06 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2025-01-14 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
  • 2025-01-22 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1837)
  • 2025-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-01-29 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-01-31 Read first time reading-1
  • 2025-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
  • 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  • 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2025-02-11 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2025-02-13 Rules suspended
  • 2025-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2025-02-13 Passed by for the day
  • 2025-02-14 Read third time reading-3
  • 2025-02-14 Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2025-02-19 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-02-19 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1837ER) passage
  • 2025-02-19 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-02-20 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1837)
  • 2025-02-22 Signed by President passage
  • 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
  • 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 142 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
  • 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0142)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4cd53f0-cd13-455b-9dc3-93551747548e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).