Virginia Senate Bill 783 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 7 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-07 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Department of Environmental Quality; carbon market participation. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to participate in any carbon market for which submerged aquatic vegetation restoration qualifies as an activity that generates carbon offset credits and to enter into agreements necessary to effect such participation, including with private entities for assistance with registration and sale of offset credits. The bill requires any revenue resulting from the sale of such credits to be used to implement additional submerged aquatic vegetation monitoring, restoration, and research or to cover any administrative costs of participation in the credit market. The bill also requires the Department to hold exclusive title to credits until sold.

Carbon market participation; submerged aquatic vegetation.

Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]

2020-02-25 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (74-Y 25-N) (Y: 74 N: 25 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 5-N) (Y: 17 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-17 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) (Y: 6 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-07		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810)
2020-04-07		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 810 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-03	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-02	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-02	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB783ER)
2020-03-02	Senate	Enrolled
2020-02-25	House	VOTE: Passage (74-Y 25-N)
2020-02-25	House	Passed House (74-Y 25-N)
2020-02-25	House	Read third time
2020-02-24	House	Passed by for the day
2020-02-21	House	Read second time
2020-02-19	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (17-Y 5-N)
2020-02-17	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
2020-02-14	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
2020-02-14	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-02-14	House	Read first time
2020-02-14	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-11	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB783S1
2020-02-11	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20107667D-S1
2020-02-11	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-11	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
2020-02-06	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2020-02-04	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-02-04	Senate	Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N)
2020-02-04	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20107667D-S1
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2020-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103471D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
28	2	1204.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB783
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB783+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB783S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB783ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0810+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S01V0061+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0247+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0457SB0783+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0520SB0783+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0521SB0783+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0522SB0783+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0523SB0783+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0102V0039+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H01V0237+SB0783
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1362+SB0783