Virginia House Bill 847 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-05 - Continued to 2015 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
Pending: House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Dumping of menhaden. Requires commercial fishermen to report any release, disposal, or dumping of more than 2,000 harvested menhaden to the Commissioner of the Marine Resources Commission. The commercial fisherman is also responsible for cleaning up any menhaden that wash onto the abutting shorelines. Any commercial fisherman who violates any of these provisions will be subject to a civil penalty of $1,000 for each offense. The proceeds from the civil penalties shall be deposited into the Marine Habitat and Waterways Improvement Fund.

Menhaden; commercial fishermen required to report any release, disposal, or dumping.

Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-05	House	Continued to 2015 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
2014-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2015 by voice vote
2014-01-20	House	Assigned ACNRsub: Chesapeake
2014-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2014-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102946D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
28	2	1204.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
28	2	241	(n/a)	See Bill Text
28	2	408.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB847
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB847+hil