Virginia Senate Bill 397 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-01-28 - Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (12-Y 3-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Rights of navigation; compensation. Requires any person who seeks to open a channel that is necessary for waterfront property owners to be able to navigate the waters of the Lynnhaven River and its tributaries, and who is not a lessee or riparian holder of oyster or clam grounds, to give 12 months' notice of his intention. Any person constructing a channel is required to compensate the lessee of oyster grounds for all losses of commercially productive oyster beds within the affected area.

Oyster grounds; navigation rights in Lynnhaven River.

Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]

2016-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (12-Y 3-N) (Y: 12 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-28	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (12-Y 3-N)
2016-01-28	Senate	Committee substitute printed to Web only 16104836D-S1
2016-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2016-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103868D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
28	2	618	(n/a)	See Bill Text
28	2	630	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB397
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB397+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB397S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S01V0032+SB0397