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2009 SESSION
Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
MEMBERSHIP
Ticer (Chairman), Whipple, Hanger, Watkins, Reynolds, Puckett, Ruff, Blevins, Deeds, Obenshain, McDougle, McEachin, Petersen, Northam, Stuart
MEETS
Monday, 9:00 a.m., Senate Room B
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- HB 1609 Foxhound training preserve; establishes license for nonresidents to hunt therein for $12.
- HB 1618 Hunting permit, special; issued to patients from veterans or military hospitals.
- HB 1623 Marine tourism activity liability; uses similar language from Agritourism Activity Liability Act.
- HB 1652 Confederate cemeteries & graves; adds Skinquarter Baptist Church Cemetery & McKenzie Cemetery.
- HB 1716 Killing of bear or deer; Class 3 misdemeanor to impede someone who has obtained a kill permit.
- HB 1719 Hunting and fishing licenses; clarifies authority to revise cost of license.
- HB 1774 Tidal creeks; establishes no discharge zones for vessels operating in designated areas.
- HB 1775 Invasive species; Sec. of Natural Resources & of Agriculture & Forestry to develop management plan.
- HB 1847 Dove hunting; exempts persons from wearing blaze orange clothing.
- HB 1918 Coal combustion by-products; use, reuse, or reclamation in a flood plain.
- HB 1925 Clean Water Farm Award Program; identifies type of agricultural best management practices.
- HB 1930 Certification of stormwater development property; Dept. of Conservation & Recreation to certify.
- HB 1931 Water Facilities Revolving Loan Fund; authorizes Resources Authority to provide portion of fees.
- HB 1951 Dangerous Dog Registry; authorizes use of copies of all records, etc., associated therewith.
- HB 1961 Special conservation police officers; those appointed after 10/1/09 shall have valid registration.
- HB 1973 Litter Control and Recycling Fund; limits awarding of grants to localities.
- HB 1991 Stormwater management programs; establishment by localities.
- HB 2001 Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program; producer of non-advanced neat biofuels eligible.
- HB 2074 Wastewater treatment plant; Board to accept petition from facility subject to waste load allocation.
- HB 2097 Animal shelter and pounds; allowed to purchase, etc., certain controlled substances for euthanizing.
- HB 2168 Stormwater offsets; authorizes permit-issuing authorities to allow permit holders to comply.
- HB 2177 Rechargeable battery recycling; authorizes localities to ban disposal of certain.
- HB 2218 Soil and water conservation district directors; notice of election.
- HB 2223 Recreational saltwater license; authorizes Resources Commission to charge nonresidents higher fee.
- HB 2248 Marine Resources Commission; Commissioner to establish permanent office on Virginia Peninsula.
- HB 2255 Solid waste disclosure statements; eliminates requirement applicants provide social security number.
- HB 2256 Fixed fishing devices; Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations that set distance between.
- HB 2345 Animal laws; correct error in 2008 recodification of Title 3.1 to allow town to adopt by reference.
- HB 2351 Natural Resources Commitment Fund; Dept. of Conservation, etc., to provide annual funding needed.
- HB 2364 Dangerous or vicious dog; court may order owner to pay restitution for damages to injured person.
- HB 2413 Craney Island Disposal Area; constructing marine terminal with dredge material is authorized.
- HB 2446 Motor fuels and lubricating oils; updates referenced standard for testing thereof.
- HB 2484 Duty of care; owners of privately owned airports, etc. used to operate aircraft exempt therefrom.
- HB 2507 Fishing licenses; Marine Resources Commission to issue refunds on prorated basis.
- HB 2540 Resources Authority; additional powers.
- HB 2558 Biosolids permit; if amended to increase acreage by 50% more than initial permit give public notice.
- HB 2565 Farmland Preservation, Office of; to provide technical assistance to local governments interested.
- HB 2566 Purchase of land by Department of Forestry; used for nonstate forest purposes.
- HB 2586 Sandbridge Beach Subdivision; Board to determine which structures, etc., are in imminent danger.
- HB 2602 Conservation and Recreation, Department of; power to establish non-competitively procured contracts.
- HB 2636 Hunting and fishing; special license for youth groups.
- SB 865 Coal combustion by-products; use, reuse, or reclamation in a flood plain.
- SB 871 Health, Department of; relieves Department of its responsibility of certain reports.
- SB 880 Game and Inland Fisheries, Department of; disclosure of official records, exceptions.
- SB 897 Animal shelter and pounds; allowed to purchase, etc., certain controlled substances for euthanizing.
- SB 930 Waste Management Plan; requires Department of Environmental Quality to prepare.
- SB 957 Rivanna Scenic River; expands to include length of waterway from South Fork Rivanna River reservoir.
- SB 967 Sales of equines by dealers; requires receipt accompany any sale of horse greater than $10,000.
- SB 1022 Wastewater treatment plants; State Water Control Board to accept petitions relating therto.
- SB 1024 Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund; removes requirement to have additional local coholder.
- SB 1026 Nonprofit corporation; authorizes Foundation for Natural Resources to establish.
- SB 1050 Natural Resources Commitment Fund; Dept. of Conservation, etc., to provide annual funding needed.
- SB 1087 Marine Resources Commission; membership.
- SB 1111 Crab season; Marine Resources Commission to establish periods of time when crabs caught for resale.
- SB 1114 Stormwater management; emerging technology.
- SB 1115 Land Conservation Fund; public access parkland.
- SB 1128 Wells; issuance of an express geothermal permit for construction therof.
- SB 1145 Greenhouse gas emissions; State Air Pollution Control Board to adopt regulation requiring reporting.
- SB 1146 Biodiesel & green diesel; requires state public bodies to procure only diesel fuel containing 2%.
- SB 1186 Biofuels Production Incentive Grant Program; producer of non-advanced neat biofuels may receive.
- SB 1194 Renewable energy projects; DEQ develop a permit by rule for construction of electrial facilities.
- SB 1198 State parks; establishes a Disabled Veterans Passport for disabled persons for free entry, etc.
- SB 1204 Royalty payments from gas or oil drilling; property owners whose interest has been force-pooled.
- SB 1211 Invasive species; Sec. of Nat. Resources, etc., to develop a plan to prevent introduction thereof.
- SB 1215 Clean Energy Manufacturing Incentive Grant Fund; created.
- SB 1295 Silvicultural activities; State Forester to inspect land to determine if activity causing pollution.
- SB 1350 Marine Resources Commission; authority to lease subaqueous lands for generating electrical energy.
- SB 1361 State park funds; transfers all moneys in State Park Operated Concessions Fund to Conservation Fund.
- SB 1460 Replacement of water by gas well operators; replace water supply contaminated, etc. by an operation.
- SB 1473 Forestry permits; State Forester require person who fishes, rides mountain bikes, etc., to obtain.
- SB 1504 Eastern Box Turtle; designating as official state reptile.
- SB 1509 Residential onsite sewage systems; replacement or modifications thereof to include nitrogen removal.
- SB 1515 Wildlife; authorizes issuance of kill permit to an airport operator if finds creating a hazard.