West Virginia Senate Bill 622 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: Passed on April 8 2008 - 100% progression
Action: 2008-04-08 - Chapter 38, Acts, Regular Session, 2008

The purpose of this bill is to provide for land conservation and stewardship through a newly-created Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund to provide grants to certain state agencies and qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations. An enhanced fee for the recording of deeds will be divided equally between the existing Farmland Protection Fund and the Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund. The Board of Trustees of the new Fund may direct the Economic Development Fund to issue revenue bonds to be secured by a portion of the recording fee.

Creating Voluntary Rural and Outdoor Heritage Conservation Act

Sen. Clark Barnes [R]	Sen. Dan Foster [D]	Sen. Jon Hunter [D]	Del. Melvin Kessler [D]
Sen. Brooks McCabe [D]	Sen. Michael Oliverio [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-04-08		Chapter 38, Acts, Regular Session, 2008
2008-03-16		Approved by Governor 3/27/08 - House Journal
2008-03-16		Approved by Governor 3/27/08 - Senate Journal
2008-03-27		Approved by Governor 3/27/08
2008-03-16		To Governor 3/26/08 - House Journal
2008-03-16		To Governor 3/26/08 - Senate Journal
2008-03-26		To Governor 3/26/08
2008-03-08		House received Senate message
2008-03-08		Completed legislative action
2008-03-08		Communicated to House
2008-03-08		Senate concurred in House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 61)
2008-03-07		Communicated to Senate
2008-03-07		Passed House (Roll No. 389)
2008-03-07		Read 3rd time
2008-03-07		On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
2008-03-06		Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
2008-03-06		Read 2nd time
2008-03-06		From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
2008-03-05		Read 1st time
2008-03-05		Immediate consideration
2008-03-05		With amendment, do pass
2008-02-28		To House Finance
2008-02-28		To Finance
2008-02-28		Introduced in House
2008-02-27		Ordered to House
2008-02-27		Passed Senate (Roll No. 55)
2008-02-27		Read 3rd time
2008-02-27		Suspension of Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 54)
2008-02-27		On 3rd reading
2008-02-27		Read 2nd time
2008-02-27		On 2nd reading
2008-02-26		Read 1st time
2008-02-26		On 1st reading
2008-02-26		Immediate consideration
2008-02-26		Unanimous consent
2008-02-26		Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
2008-02-20		On second reading to Finance
2008-02-20		Read 1st time
2008-02-20		On 1st reading
2008-02-20		Immediate consideration
2008-02-20		Unanimous consent
2008-02-20		Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
2008-02-08		To Economic Development
2008-02-08		To Economic Development then Finance
2008-02-08		Introduced in Senate
2008-02-08		To Economic Development then Finance
2008-02-08		Filed for introduction

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=622&year=2008&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill