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type: "Bill"
title: "Potato Board; reduces membership."
description: "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Potato Board; membership. Reduces from seven to five the number of members that serve on the Potato Board. The bill provides that the terms of persons serving as members of the Potato Board prior to the effective date of the bill shall expire on the effective date of the bill and that five members shall be appointed in accordance with the staggered terms set out in the bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1399"
citation: "Virginia HB 1399 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert S. Bloxom, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af223c4c-d030-4a77-9de7-c341ee25d87e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1399"
source_hash: "61fe8b483509278be9eed4e23c80fa3ec84d1fd268b3f17e9b48dbaa6cbc57cf"
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 1399 (2024) — Potato Board; reduces membership.
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Potato Board; membership. Reduces from seven to five the number of members that serve on the Potato Board. The bill provides that the terms of persons serving as members of the Potato Board prior to the effective date of the bill shall expire on the effective date of the bill and that five members shall be appointed in accordance with the staggered terms set out in the bill.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0223** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0223)
2. **HB1399ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1399ER)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 24104044D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1399)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) — **141** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) — **373** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws (20-Y 0-N) — **200** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 24104044D `introduction`
- **2024-01-17** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB1399)
- **2024-01-26** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-08** Reported from General Laws (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-11** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-14** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Passed by for the day
- **2024-03-05** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1399ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **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`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 223 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0223)
- **2024-04-03** Impact statement from DPB (HB1399ER)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af223c4c-d030-4a77-9de7-c341ee25d87e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).