| VA | HB949 | Veto | Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans; civil penalties. Requires any person that is required to submit a facility response plan under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Worst Case Discharge Plan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB985 | Pass | High polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pavement sealants; prohibition; civil penalty. Prohibits the sale or distribution of any pavement sealant that contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations greater than one percent by weight on or after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0736) |
| VA | SB337 | Pass | Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area; continued residential withdrawals. Directs the State Water Control Board to waive the expiration of any ground water withdrawal permit for a well that serves exclusively residential users, is located in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| VA | SB243 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; Department of Health; PFAS; identification; monitoring; PFAS Expert Advisory Council established; report. Requires, for every public water system, as defined in the bill, the Department of Health (VDH) to assist t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0343) |
| VA | HB1085 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; Department of Health; PFAS; identification; monitoring; PFAS Expert Advisory Council established; report. Requires, for every public water system, as defined in the bill, the Department of Health (VDH) to assist t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0316) |
| VA | HB220 | Pass | Water facilities; staffing; licensed operators. Requires sewage treatment works, classified waterworks, and classified water treatment facilities to employ a licensed operator. The bill establishes a protocol for responding to an unexpected vacancy o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0178) |
| VA | HB870 | Pass | Sewage sludge regulations; relief from administrative requirements; adverse and unusual weather events. Requires the State Water Control Board, with the assistance of the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Department of Health, to adop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0209) |
| VA | SB581 | Pass | Department of Environmental Quality; data; groundwater and surface water withdrawal permits. Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality to utilize and incorporate comprehensive groundwater, surface water, and aquifer data in its decision-maki...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) |
| VA | HB71 | Pass | Combined sewer overflow outfalls; compliance with regulations; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Extends from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, the date by which certain combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls that discharge into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed mus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0097) |
| VA | HB656 | Pass | Regulated land-disturbing activities; submission and approval of erosion and sediment control plan. Prohibits a person from engaging in any land-disturbing activity until, where Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit coverage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0104) |
| VA | SB372 | Pass | Combined sewer overflow outfalls; compliance with regulations; Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Extends from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, the date by which certain combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfalls that discharge into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed mus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0006) |
| VA | SB365 | Pass | Regulated land-disturbing activities; submission and approval of erosion and sediment control plan. Prohibits a person from engaging in any land-disturbing activity until, where Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit coverage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0005) |
| VA | SB674 | Pass | Virginia Coastal Resilience Collaborative at The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Changes references relating to coastal resilience policy from the Coastal Policy Center at William and Mary School of Law to the Virginia Coastal Resilience Col...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013) |
| VA | SB673 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; State Water Control Board; prioritization of water for human consumption and food production. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Water Control Board to prioritize the preservation of wat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act; local government ordinances; criteria for local governments; Resource Protection Area exceptions. Amends the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act to require the State Water Control Board, in developing criteria for local g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Use of salt and brine; certain highways. Prohibits the Department of Transportation from using salt or brine for stabilization or control of ice or snow on any highway that is part of the primary or secondary state highway system and located in the w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1449 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Coastal Resilience Collaborative at The College of William and Mary in Virginia. Changes references relating to coastal resilience policy from the Coastal Policy Center at William and Mary School of Law to the Virginia Coastal Resilience Col...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
VOTE: Defeated (48-Y 51-N) |
| VA | HB1472 | Intro
Sine Die | Water certificates or permits; compliance with water quality standards. Requires the State Water Control Board to ensure all activities allowed under any water certificate or permit are in compliance with the water quality standards promulgated by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1196 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Port Authority; Virginia Waterway Maintenance Grant Program; grant funding; projects. Clarifies the circumstances under which the Virginia Port Authority may award grant funding from the Virginia Waterway Maintenance Grant Program for the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1478 | Intro
Sine Die | Casino gaming; cruise ships. Authorizes the conduct of cruise ship casino gaming in the offshore waters of the Commonwealth by a cruise ship operator that applies for and receives a permit from the Virginia Lottery. The bill sets an annual permit fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1520 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Institute of Marine Science; review the cumulative surface water intake effects on aquatic fauna in the Chesapeake Bay; report. Directs the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) to review the feasibility of studying cumulative impacts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB1520 | Intro
Prefile | Virginia Institute of Marine Science; review the cumulative surface water intake effects on aquatic fauna in the Chesapeake Bay; report. Directs the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) to review the feasibility of studying cumulative impacts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Environmental Quality; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; work group; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a work group to develop (i) strategies for pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB357 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Environmental Quality; protection of existing tidal and nontidal wetlands; wetland restoration and creation; work group; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a work group to develop (i) strategies for pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB524 | Intro
Sine Die | Permit applications for natural gas pipelines; State Water Control Law. Requires applicants for federal licenses or permits for natural gas transmission pipelines with an inside diameter of at least 24 inches to submit a separate application, erosion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | HB524 | Intro
Prefile | Permit applications for natural gas pipelines; State Water Control Law. Requires applicants for federal licenses or permits for natural gas transmission pipelines with an inside diameter of at least 24 inches to submit a separate application, erosion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Marine Resources Commission; certain permits in the Lynnhaven River and its tributaries prohibited. Prohibits the Marine Resources Commission from issuing any permit for any floating oyster cage in a water column, rack-and-bag, or other similar appar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB665 | Intro
Prefile | Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; land-disturbing activities. Adds the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority to the list of entities that may submit standards and specifications for its c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Stormwater management regulations; enterprise data center operations. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require certain stormwater management techniques for land disturbances related to the construction, expansion, or op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB446 | Intro
Sine Die | State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB289 | Intro
Prefile | Stormwater management regulations; enterprise data center operations. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require certain stormwater management techniques for land disturbances related to the construction, expansion, or op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
| VA | SB446 | Intro
Prefile | State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia Waste Management Board consolidated; Board of Environmental Resources established. Consolidates the State Air Pollution Control Board, State Water Control Board, and Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee |
