VA HB1697 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 27 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-29 - Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
Hearing: Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm in Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 27 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-29 - Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
Hearing: Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm in Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Fishing with trawl nets and drag nets; shrimp and horseshoe crab; license fee; penalty. Allows the Marine Resources Commission to issue licenses or permits to any person to take or catch fish, shellfish, or marine organisms with a trawl net, drag net, or similar device within the three-mile limit of the Virginia Atlantic shoreline for the shrimp and horseshoe crab fisheries. The bill specifies that such license or permit shall be accompanied by a fee of $100 or as subsequently revised by the Commission for each boat so employed. Current law allows any person to fish with trawl nets and drag nets for fish, shellfish, or marine organisms, provided such person has a license issued by the Commission to trawl within the three-mile limit from Cape Charles north to the Maryland line, except during September and October and from 36° 40' north latitude south to the North Carolina line at any time, and from Cape Henry south to 36° 40' north latitude between October 1 and May 1.
Title
Fishing with trawl nets and drag nets; shrimp and horseshoe crab; license fee; penalty.
Sponsors
| Del. Alex Askew [D] |
Roll Calls
2025-01-28 - House - Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-22 - House - Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-20 - House - Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-22 - House - Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-20 - House - Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) |
| 2025-01-28 | House | Read third time and passed House (99-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-27 | House | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2025-01-24 | House | Read first time |
| 2025-01-22 | House | Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-20 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-14 | House | Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake |
| 2025-01-13 | House | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1697) |
| 2025-01-04 | House | Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
| 2025-01-04 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102069D |
