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type: "Bill"
title: "Hunter education program personnel; Board of Wildlife Resources to staff."
description: "Hunter education program personnel. Requires the Board of Wildlife Resources to staff the hunter education program with appropriate personnel to ensure that hunter education, training, workshops, and volunteer management are carried out across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Board is required to establish at least one full-time hunter education coordinator position for each Department of Wildlife Resources administrative region, and each coordinator is assigned to a conservation police officer district and has the responsibility for providing hunter education training throughout his administrative region."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1204"
citation: "Virginia SB 1204 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tammy Brankley Mulchi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88c8ba34-a91a-4a1a-be57-18651f5b72b4"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1204"
source_hash: "c5f36b7893786754cd2b07b5d98438f85ea29a7c6a818dba91a1805e56d7fe57"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 1204 (2025) — Hunter education program personnel; Board of Wildlife Resources to staff.
Hunter education program personnel. Requires the Board of Wildlife Resources to staff the hunter education program with appropriate personnel to ensure that hunter education, training, workshops, and volunteer management are carried out across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Board is required to establish at least one full-time hunter education coordinator position for each Department of Wildlife Resources administrative region, and each coordinator is assigned to a conservation police officer district and has the responsibility for providing hunter education training throughout his administrative region.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1018215.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1074577.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1055773.PDF)
## Votes
- Passed House (92-Y 4-N) — **924** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (14-Y 8-N) — **148** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Tammy Brankley Mulchi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100725D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1204)
- **2025-01-23** Assigned ACNR sub: Rural Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- **2025-01-30** Passed by for the day
- **2025-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-31** Rules suspended
- **2025-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-31** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2025-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-06** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (14-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Passed House (92-Y 4-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1204ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1204)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 443 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88c8ba34-a91a-4a1a-be57-18651f5b72b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).