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2007 SESSION
HJ 692 Open-Space & Farmlands, Joint Sub. Studying Funding Sources for Purchase of Development Rights.
Introduced by: Benjamin L. Cline | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Study; continues the Joint Subcommittee Studying Long-Term Funding for the Purchase of Development Rights to Preserve Open-Space and Farmlands; report. Continues for an additional year the Joint Subcommittee Studying Long-Term Funding Sources for the Purchase of Development Rights to Preserve Open-Space Land and Farmlands. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall review recent funding for the preservation of open-space and other conservation land; the future needs of the Commonwealth for open-space and other conservation land, including but not limited to: working farms and forests, wildlife habitat and gamelands, natural areas, parks, and historic resources; the mix of programs best suited to meet such needs, including but not limited to Purchase of Development Rights programs; the cost of such needs; and long-term funding to pay the costs. In addition, the joint subcommittee shall develop a plan for the sharing of the costs of land preservation among the Commonwealth and its local governments. Further, the joint subcommittee shall identify strategies for increasing land preservation, water supply protection and the availability of large parks to serve Northern Virginia. This resolution incorporates HJR 576 (Lewis) and is identical to SJR 401 (Hanger).
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 071949268 pdf
- 02/01/07 House: Committee substitute printed 072676268-H1 pdf
- 02/19/07 Senate: Committee substitute printed 076138268-S1 pdf
- 03/07/07 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ692ER) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/10/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 071949268
- 01/10/07 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/31/07 House: Reported from Rules with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
- 02/01/07 House: Committee substitute printed 072676268-H1
- 02/02/07 House: Taken up
- 02/02/07 House: Committee substitute agreed to 072676268-H1
- 02/02/07 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HJ692H1
- 02/02/07 House: Agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/07 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/07 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/05/07 Senate: Reading waived
- 02/05/07 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/19/07 Senate: Committee substitute printed 076138268-S1
- 02/19/07 Senate: Reported from Rules with substitute by voice vote
- 02/20/07 Senate: Reading waived (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/20/07 Senate: Motion to reconsider Passed by for the day agreed to (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/07 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/21/07 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/07 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/21/07 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 076138268-S1
- 02/21/07 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HJ692S1
- 02/21/07 Senate: Agreed to by Senate with substitute by voice vote
- 02/22/07 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/22/07 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/22/07 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 1-N)
- 03/07/07 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ692ER)