VA HB357 | 2025 | Regular Session
Note: Carry Over of previous HB357
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-01 - Continued to 2025 in Rules by voice vote
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 6 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-01 - Continued to 2025 in Rules by voice vote
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
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 protecting the existing tidal and nontidal wetlands of the Commonwealth and (ii) plans for wetland restoration and creation to address losses and adverse impacts from human activities and climate change. The bill specifies that such work group shall include certain relevant stakeholders and will focus on (a) evaluating existing approaches to wetland conservation strategies in the Commonwealth and other states, (b) identifying wetlands adaption areas where tidal wetlands can persist in the landscape, and (c) exploring the circumstances in which climate can impact the wetlands' health and survival. The bill requires the work group to report its findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by December 1, 2024.
Title
Tidal and nontidal wetlands; DEQ to establish work group to develop strategies to protect, report.
Sponsors
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
---|---|---|
2024-02-01 | House | Continued to 2025 in Rules by voice vote |
2024-01-29 | House | Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 by voice vote |
2024-01-25 | House | Assigned Rules sub: Studies Subcommittee |
2024-01-06 | House | Referred to Committee on Rules |
2024-01-06 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102766D |
Same As/Similar To
HB357 (Carry Over) 2024-02-01 - Continued to 2025 in Rules by voice vote
Subjects
Study Commissions Committees and Reports
Uncodified Legislation
Waters of the State Ports and Harbors
Wetlands
Uncodified Legislation
Waters of the State Ports and Harbors
Wetlands