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type: "Bill"
title: "Saltwater recreational fishing license; member of American Indian tribe exempt."
description: "Saltwater recreational fishing license; member of American Indian tribe exempt."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 853"
citation: "Virginia HB 853 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher K. Peace"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c585e242-f4c0-46d7-affa-276a3ae6b3bd"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB853"
source_hash: "91ce3d60408423c9621b2d07b628f9a114f472e94b5d834116aca4455f1aa873"
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 853 (2018) — Saltwater recreational fishing license; member of American Indian tribe exempt.
## 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 (HB853ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB853ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101425D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB853)
## Votes
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Christopher K. Peace — primary (person)
- Brenda L. Pogge — cosponsor (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
- M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101425D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-07** 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
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 118 (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/c585e242-f4c0-46d7-affa-276a3ae6b3bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).