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HB 1618 Hunting permit, special; issued to patients from veterans or military hospitals.
Introduced by: Donald W. Merricks | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Special hunting permit. Allows the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to permit any organized group of patients residing in or receiving outpatient treatment from a veterans or military hospital to hunt without having to obtain a license on any lands of the Commonwealth where it is otherwise legal to do so. Currently, the Director may only issue a special permit to allow such a group of persons to fish without a license in the public waters of the Commonwealth. This bill incorporates HB 1666.
FULL TEXT
- 11/19/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 093051638 pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/09 House: Committee substitute printed 093978638-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/16/09 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1618ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005) pdf
HISTORY
- 11/19/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 093051638
- 11/19/08 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/21/09 House: Assigned ACNRsub: #2 Natural Resource
- 01/21/09 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s)
- 01/28/09 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/09 House: Committee substitute printed 093978638-H1
- 01/29/09 House: Read first time
- 01/30/09 House: Read second time
- 01/30/09 House: Committee substitute agreed to 093978638-H1
- 01/30/09 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1618H1
- 02/02/09 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/09 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/09 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/02/09 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/09 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/09 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/09/09 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/09 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/11/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/09 Senate: Read third time
- 02/12/09 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/09 House: Enrolled
- 02/16/09 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1618ER)
- 02/17/09 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/17/09 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/23/09 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 5 (effective 7/1/09)
- 02/23/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005)