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2001 SESSION

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HB 1687 Land Conservation Foundation; funds for natural area protection.

Introduced by: Alan A. Diamonstein | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Virginia Conservation Land Foundation; expenditure of funds for natural area protection. Removes the requirement that a holder or public body must be in existence and operating in Virginia for more than five years in order to qualify for a matching grant for the protection of a natural area from the Virginia Land Conservation Fund. This bill is identical to SB 1012.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Virginia Conservation Land Foundation; expenditure of funds for natural area protection. Removes the requirement that in order to qualify for a matching grant from the Virginia Land Conservation Fund for the protection of a natural area, a holder or public body must be in existence and operating in Virginia for more than five years.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia Conservation Land Foundation; expenditure of funds for natural area protection. Authorizes the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation to make grants from the Virginia Land Conservation Fund to a locality that has been in existence for five years or less if such governing body has approved a resolution in support of land conservation. The locality must submit a copy of such resolution with its grant application. Under current law, the Foundation can only make grants to public bodies, which includes localities, if they have been in existence for more than five years.