Virginia House Bill 2126 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 22 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Department of Environmental Quality; stormwater management and erosion and sediment control plans; gravel access roads; electric utilities. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to include specifications regarding certain activities for stormwater management and erosion and sediment control related to the installation of permanent gravel access roads by an electric utility in the next publication of the Department's Virginia Stormwater Management Handbook (the Handbook). The bill permits any electric utility that complies with such specifications to be deemed to satisfy the water quantity technical criteria in the Stormwater Management Act. The bill further allows, until the effective date of the next publication of the Handbook, any new permanent gravel access road associated with the construction and maintenance of electric transmission lines by an electric utility to be deemed to have satisfied the required water quantity technical criteria if certain requirements are met.

Stormwater management & erosion & sediment control; installation of permanent gravel access roads.

Del. Tony Wilt [R]

2023-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Rules (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (91-Y 7-N) (Y: 91 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-01 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (17-Y 5-N) (Y: 17 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-22		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0196)
2023-03-22		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 196 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-02		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-02	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
2023-02-24	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2126ER)
2023-02-24	House	Enrolled
2023-02-21	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-21	Senate	Read third time
2023-02-20	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-17	Senate	Reported from Rules (13-Y 0-N)
2023-02-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rules
2023-02-08	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2023-02-07	House	VOTE: Passage (91-Y 7-N)
2023-02-07	House	Read third time and passed House (91-Y 7-N)
2023-02-06	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2126H1
2023-02-06	House	Committee substitute agreed to 23106082D-H1
2023-02-06	House	Read second time
2023-02-03	House	Read first time
2023-02-01	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (17-Y 5-N)
2023-02-01	House	Committee substitute printed 23106082D-H1
2023-01-13	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
2023-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2023-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102984D

SB1178 (Same As) 2023-03-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197)
SB1178 (Same As) 2023-03-22 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
62	1	44.15:31	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2126
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2126+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2126H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2126ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0196+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23106082D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB2126F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB2126FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB2126FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H01V0060+HB2126
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1571+HB2126
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S10V0081+HB2126
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0630HB2126+HB2126
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0679HB2126+HB2126