Virginia Senate Bill 1122 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 23 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund; use of funds; conservation easements to nonprofit land trust. Allows grants made from the Open Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund to be used to aid localities in providing funding for projects approved by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to persons conveying conservation easements to nonprofit land trusts so long as such easement has a local coholder, as defined in the bill. In cases where a grant is used to purchase all or part of the value of a property interest, such property interest is required to be (i) compliant with the Open-Space Land Act or (ii) a conservation easement under the Virginia Conservation Easement Act, so long as the holder of such easement is accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission or its designated subsidiary entity. If the Land Trust Accreditation Commission accreditation is not available at the time of the grant application for such holder, the Foundation is required to evaluate such holder on a case-by-case basis consistent with its established guidelines. Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund; use of funds; conservation easements to nonprofit land trust. Allows grants made from the Open Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund to be used to aid localities in providing funding for projects approved by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to persons conveying conservation easements to nonprofit land trusts so long as such easement has a local coholder, as defined in the bill. In cases where a grant is used to purchase all or part of the value of a property interest, such property interest is required to be (i) compliant with the Open-Space Land Act or (ii) a conservation easement under the Virginia Conservation Easement Act, so long as the holder of such easement is accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission or its designated subsidiary entity. If the Land Trust Accreditation Commission accreditation is not available at the time of the grant application for such holder, the Foundation is required to evaluate such holder on a case-by-case basis consistent with its established guidelines.

Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund; use of funds, conservation easements.

Sen. Emmett Hanger [R]

2023-02-20 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-15 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (19-Y 0-N) (Y: 19 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2023-02-15 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0389)
2023-03-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 389 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-02		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-02	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
2023-02-25	Senate	Signed by President
2023-02-23	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-02-23	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1122ER)
2023-02-23	Senate	Enrolled
2023-02-20	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
2023-02-20	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2023-02-20	House	Read third time
2023-02-17	House	Read second time
2023-02-15	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (19-Y 0-N)
2023-02-15	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
2023-02-10	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
2023-02-10	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2023-02-10	House	Read first time
2023-02-10	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-03	Senate	Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-03	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1122S1
2023-02-03	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 23105989D-S1
2023-02-03	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2023-02-03	Senate	Read second time
2023-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2023-01-31	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23105989D-S1
2023-01-31	Senate	Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (14-Y 0-N)
2023-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2023-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102840D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	1	1801.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1122
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1122+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1122S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1122ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0389+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23105989D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1122F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1122FS1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1122FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S01V0055+SB1122
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0212SB1122+SB1122
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0236SB1122+SB1122
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0237SB1122+SB1122
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H0103V0015+SB1122
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H01V0115+SB1122
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2026+SB1122