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2008 SESSION

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HB 848 Development rights program; Board of Farmland Preservation to create lease.

Introduced by: R. Lee Ware, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Lease of development rights program.  Tasks the Office of Farmland Preservation to create a lease of development rights program. Under such program, properties of 20 acres and larger and that are enrolled in "land use" taxation programs, would be eligible to participate in a lease of development rights program whereby the property owner relinquishes "by right" development for at least seven years in exchange for a contractually agreed upon lease amount.

FULL TEXT

• 01/08/08  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 081003544  pdf | impact statement
• 01/25/08  House: Printed as engrossed 081003544-E  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• House amendments

HISTORY

• 01/08/08  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 081003544
• 01/08/08  House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
• 01/23/08  House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
• 01/24/08  House: Read first time
• 01/25/08  House: Read second time
• 01/25/08  House: Committee amendments agreed to
• 01/25/08  House: Engrossed by House as amended HB848E
• 01/25/08  House: Printed as engrossed 081003544-E
• 01/28/08  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
• 01/28/08  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
• 01/28/08  House: Communicated to Senate
• 01/29/08  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 01/29/08  Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
• 02/18/08  Senate: Continued to 2009 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)