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type: "Bill"
title: "Hunting apparel; hunting from an enclosed blind, displaying solid blaze orange or solid blaze pink."
description: "Allows a hunter hunting from an enclosed ground blind during any firearms deer season, except during the special season for hunting deer with a muzzle-loading rifle only, to display attached to or immediately above the blind at least 100 square inches of solid blaze orange or solid blaze pink material visible from 360 degrees in lieu of wearing specified hunting apparel. The bill also requires that all specified blaze orange or blaze pink hunting apparel or material be solid in color and safety or fluorescent in hue. The bill contains technical amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 564"
citation: "Virginia HB 564 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Game", "Inland Fisheries and Boating"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James E. Edmunds, II"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2addc89c-3c95-434e-b5fb-f2c0ca3e560b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB564"
source_hash: "6747255b7137f61b11475be65101e52956b7b78cdff11410460f25fa1e08bb3b"
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 HB 564 (2018) — Hunting apparel; hunting from an enclosed blind, displaying solid blaze orange or solid blaze pink.
Allows a hunter hunting from an enclosed ground blind during any firearms deer season, except during the special season for hunting deer with a muzzle-loading rifle only, to display attached to or immediately above the blind at least 100 square inches of solid blaze orange or solid blaze pink material visible from 360 degrees in lieu of wearing specified hunting apparel. The bill also requires that all specified blaze orange or blaze pink hunting apparel or material be solid in color and safety or fluorescent in hue. The bill contains technical amendments.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB564ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB564ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101520D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB564)
3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18101520D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB564E)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendments — **211** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **981** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **150** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- James E. Edmunds, II — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101520D `introduction`
- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Assigned ACNRsub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-01-29** Engrossed by House as amended HB564E
- **2018-01-29** Printed as engrossed 18101520D-E
- **2018-01-30** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-01-31** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 151 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2addc89c-3c95-434e-b5fb-f2c0ca3e560b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).