Virginia House Bill 2023 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-05 - Left in Counties, Cities and Towns
Pending: House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Solar and wind farms; reporting of acreage by locality. Requires each locality to provide to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy information about the amount of land formerly in production agriculture or silviculture that has been approved for development into or has been developed into solar or wind farms. The bill requires the Division of Energy to establish a database to collect and maintain figures on the amount of land formerly in production agriculture or production silviculture that has been approved for development into or has been developed into solar or wind farms. The bill also requires localities, in adopting ordinances for and approving the development of solar and wind farm projects, to consider certain effects of such projects.

Solar and wind farms; reporting of acreage by locality.

Del. Charles Poindexter [R]

2021-01-21 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-05	House	Left in Counties, Cities and Towns
2021-01-21	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 2-N)
2021-01-14	House	Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use
2021-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
2021-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101513D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2209.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	2288.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
45	1	394.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB2023
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB2023+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+H0702V0004+HB2023