Virginia Senate Bill 674 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 9 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-09 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0959)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Voluntary forest mitigation agreements. Authorizes the Secretary of Natural Resources, the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, or any agency within those secretariats, or the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to enter into an agreement, with certain minimum provisions, with the owner or operator of construction projects to accomplish forest mitigation, as defined in the bill. The bill provides that no such agreement shall (i) include any waiver of liability for environmental damage caused by the construction project or (ii) guarantee regulatory approval for a construction project by any state agency.

Voluntary forest mitigation; agreements.

Sen. Monty Mason [D]

2020-02-24 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (63-Y 37-N) (Y: 63 N: 37 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (16-Y 6-N) (Y: 16 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-19 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 16-N) (Y: 23 N: 16 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-21 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (8-Y 1-N 4-A) (Y: 8 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-09		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0959)
2020-04-09		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 959 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-10		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-10	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 10, 2020
2020-02-27	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-02-27	Senate	Signed by President
2020-02-27	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB674ER)
2020-02-27	Senate	Enrolled
2020-02-24	House	VOTE: Passage (63-Y 37-N)
2020-02-24	House	Passed House (63-Y 37-N)
2020-02-24	House	Read third time
2020-02-21	House	Read second time
2020-02-19	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (16-Y 6-N)
2020-02-19	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2020-02-13	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
2020-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-02-13	House	Read first time
2020-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-01-27	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 16-N)
2020-01-24	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB674S1
2020-01-24	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20106282D-S1
2020-01-24	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-01-24	Senate	Read second time
2020-01-23	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2020-01-21	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20106282D-S1
2020-01-21	Senate	Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (8-Y 1-N 4-A)
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102486D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	1	1181.13	(n/a)	See Bill Text
10	1	1181.14	(n/a)	See Bill Text
10	1	1181.15	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB674
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB674+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB674S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB674ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0959+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S01V0019+SB0674
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0135SB0674+SB0674
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0180SB0674+SB0674
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0103V0047+SB0674
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H01V0242+SB0674
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1266+SB0674