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2007 SESSION
Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
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Hawkins (Chairman), Chichester, Ticer, Whipple, Hanger, Watkins, Reynolds, Puckett, Ruff, Blevins, Deeds, Cuccinelli, Obenshain, Locke, McDougle
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Mondays, 9:00 a.m. in Senate Room B.
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- HB 1627 Boating safety education; must complete to operate motorboat or personal watercraft, civil penalty.
- HB 1689 Municipal solid waste; regulation thereof.
- HB 1710 Treatment works; reimbursement to localities of funds for upgrades thereof.
- HB 1715 Garbage; increases fine for dumping into state waters.
- HB 1720 Gold mining, recreational; exempts miners from having to obtain permit if meet certain conditions.
- HB 1758 Obstructing or contaminating state waters; increases penalty therefor.
- HB 1823 Right to Farm Act; adds cities and towns to certain provisions.
- HB 1834 Equine Center Foundation; abolishment thereof.
- HB 1847 Waste load allocations; Water Control Board to grant thereof for Chesapeake Bay watershed program.
- HB 1855 Aquaculture; sets guidelines for placement of temporary shellfish enclosures in state waters.
- HB 1859 Water quality monitors; DEQ to encourage those, ensuring 3,000 stream miles are monitored by 2010.
- HB 1867 Game wardens; changes name to conservation police officer.
- HB 1868 Saltwater fishing licenses; sets commission fee for license agents.
- HB 1900 Cruelty to animals; penalty if deprives animal of food, drink, shelter or veterinary treatment.
- HB 1981 Hunting fees; Board of Game & Inland Fisheries to increase or decrease for residents & nonresidents.
- HB 1993 Oysters; shifts measurement to point of landing to enforce selling thereof.
- HB 2012 Wild Spanish Mustangs Fund; created.
- HB 2019 Waterfowl blind licenses; allows for electronic transmission of applications therefor.
- HB 2020 National Forest Stamp; changes term thereof to one year from date of purchase.
- HB 2021 Crossbow license; adds to list of those covered by two combination licenses.
- HB 2031 Parasail operators; Board of Game and Inland Fisheries to promulgate regulations applicable thereto.
- HB 2043 Crabmeat; processors to include on label of container date was processed and packed, civil penalty.
- HB 2082 Menhaden; establishes annual harvest quota for portion of Chesapeake Bay.
- HB 2099 Dog license application; delays date requirement that local treasurer transmit to owner.
- HB 2143 State parks; reduces penalty for violating regulations.
- HB 2180 Stormwater inspectors; removes certification required by Department of Environmental Quality.
- HB 2229 Impaired Waters Clean-up Plan Report; consolidation of various reports into.
- HB 2296 Cats and dogs; exempts releasing agencies from obligations of licensure.
- HB 2308 Model firearms hunting ordinances; locality may adopt those developed by Board of Game, etc.
- HB 2309 Shotguns; eliminates certain requirements for hunting migratory game birds.
- HB 2313 Migratory Waterfowl Conservation Stamp; changes fiscal year thereof.
- HB 2339 Hunting & trapping; Department of Game & Inland Fisheries to sell permits therefor in state forests.
- HB 2396 Goose Creek; designating portion in Fauquier and Loudoun Counties as Scenic River.
- HB 2483 Water quality monitoring; establishes deadline for public to submit its recommendations thereof.
- HB 2487 Low-flow protections; authorizing withdrawal of water from Potomac River.
- HB 2539 Water Resources and Wetlands Protection Program; created.
- HB 2568 Erosion and sediment control; violation of ordinances.
- HB 2692 Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund; limitations.
- HB 2694 Resources Authority; expands projects that can be financed to include land conserv. & preservation.
- HB 2695 Dams, low-head; owners to use signs, etc. to warn public of hazards of swimming, etc. posed thereby.
- HB 2714 Shooting enclosures, illegal; increases penalty for violating provisons thereof.
- HB 2782 Bottomlands; conveyance of state-owned.
- HB 2802 Land application of sewage sludge; regulation and management thereof.
- HB 2816 Weights and measures; allows Commissioner to establish a schedule for examination thereof.
- HB 2825 Land Conservation Fund; disbursement of moneys.
- HB 3005 Natural gas pipeline; Marine Resources Commission to grant easements and rights-of-way.
- HB 3089 Biofuels Incentive Grant Program; lowers eligibility requirement therefor.
- HB 3113 Environmental Quality, Department of; consolidation of various boards, increase of authority.
- HB 3133 Sanitary landfills; Department of Environmental Quality to develop postclosure guidelines.
- HB 3135 State forests; designates proceeds generated to Counties of Appomattox, Buckingham, & Cumberland.
- HB 3190 Coal mine certification; requires pre-employment substance abuse testing and suspension for certain.
- SB 797 Farm-to-school website; Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish.
- SB 798 Sewage overflows; authorizes Water Control Board to issue administrative orders for corrective act.
- SB 806 Charitable organizations; those engaged in food distribution to needy are exempt from regulations.
- SB 821 Erosion and sediment control; violation of ordinances.
- SB 882 Hunting lands; establishes a policy no net loss of public lands on which hunting occurs.
- SB 917 Donation of food to charity organizations; regulations for food prepared in his private residence.
- SB 925 Air pollution; methods to determine opacity.
- SB 930 Humane investigators; restores program thereof.
- SB 942 Land Conservation Fund; disbursement of moneys.
- SB 950 Muzzle-loading rifle ordinances; removes authority of localities to adopt ordinance that permit use.
- SB 951 Stray animals; allows a person living in any political subdivision to adopt.
- SB 1061 Fertilizers; regulation thereof.
- SB 1076 Disabled persons; authorizes Department of Forestry, et al., to adopt hunting, etc. regulations.
- SB 1091 Coal miner certification; requires pre-employment substance abuse testing & suspension.
- SB 1115 Trees and timber; proceeds of sale of those from state parks and natural area preserves.
- SB 1125 Donation of food to charity organizations; regulations for food prepared in his private residence.
- SB 1190 Fighting of cocks and other animals; Class 6 felony for any person to engage therein.
- SB 1241 Boating safety education; must complete to operate motorboat or personal watercraft, civil penalty.
- SB 1300 Sewage sludge; locality may adopt an ordinance that requires special use permit for routine storage.
- SB 1301 Water Quality Improvement Fund; Combined Sewer Overflow funding for Cities of Lynchburg & Richmond.
- SB 1313 Sewage sludge; local government to certify that site thereof in compliance with ordinances.
- SB 1314 Boating under influence of alcohol; makes consistent with that used for driving under influence.
- SB 1322 Combined Sewer Overflow Fund; created.
- SB 1333 Aquaculture; sets guidelines for placement of temporary shellfish enclosures in state waters.
- SB 1339 Land application of sewage sludge; regulation and management thereof.
- SB 1345 Dogfighting; certain people are required to report.
- SB 1402 Discharges into Levisa Fork; prescribes size of mixing zone for discharge of salty mine water.
- SB 1403 Environmental Quality, Department of; consolidation of various boards, increase of authority.
- SB 1407 Crops; requires Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish support program.