Virginia Senate Bill 252 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on February 23 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-02-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

State Forester; century forest program. Directs the State Forester to establish a program to honor families whose property has been in the same family for 100 years or more, includes at least 20 contiguous acres of managed forest, and meets certain requirements. The bill also removes the option for the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to recognize under the century farm program a farm that does not gross more than $2,500 annually but is being used for a bona fide silvicultural purpose.

Century forest program; State Forester to establish program to honor certain families, eligibility.

Sen. Frank Ruff [R]

2016-02-12 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-02-10 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2016-01-21 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006)
2016-02-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 6 (effective 7/1/16)
2016-02-16		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 23, 2016
2016-02-16	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/16/16
2016-02-15	House	Signed by Speaker
2016-02-15	Senate	Signed by President
2016-02-15	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB252ER)
2016-02-15	Senate	Enrolled
2016-02-12	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-02-12	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2016-02-12	House	Read third time
2016-02-11	House	Read second time
2016-02-10	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)
2016-02-03	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2016-02-03	House	Read first time
2016-02-03	House	Placed on Calendar
2016-01-27	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2016-01-26	Senate	Printed as engrossed 16100660D-E
2016-01-26	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended SB252E
2016-01-26	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2016-01-26	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2016-01-26	Senate	Read second time
2016-01-25	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2016-01-21	Senate	Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
2016-01-06	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2016-01-06	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100660D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	1	1105.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	105	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB252
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB252+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB252E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB252ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+CHAP0006+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S01V0009+SB0252
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0072SB0252+SB0252
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+SV0090SB0252+SB0252
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+H01V0055+SB0252
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+HV0444+SB0252