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HB 2067 Daylighted streams; not required to become Resource Protection Area.
Introduced by: Vivian E. Watts | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Daylighted streams. Provides that the State Water Control Board (SWCB), when developing the criteria for a Resource Protection Area (RPA) under the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act, shall not require that a daylighted stream become an RPA. The bill requires any locality that does not designate an RPA adjacent to a daylighted stream to use a water quality impact assessment to ensure that development adjacent to the stream does not result in the degradation of the stream. The locality's assessment must (i) be consistent with the SWCB's criteria for water quality impact assessments in RPAs, (ii) identify the impacts of proposed development on water quality, and (iii) determine measures to mitigate adverse impacts. The bill defines a daylighted stream as a stream that has been previously diverted into a culvert, pipe, or other underground drainage system and is redirected into an aboveground channel using natural channel design concepts. The bill does not limit a locality's authority to include such a stream within an RPA.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102257D pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15104800D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/06/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2067ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/27/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102257D
- 01/14/15 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/04/15 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
- 02/04/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15104800D-H1
- 02/05/15 House: Read first time
- 02/06/15 House: Read second time
- 02/06/15 House: Committee substitute agreed to 15104800D-H1
- 02/06/15 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2067H1
- 02/09/15 House: Read third time and passed House (93-Y 4-N)
- 02/09/15 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (93-Y 4-N)
- 02/10/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/19/15 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/23/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/15 Senate: Read third time
- 02/24/15 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/24/15 Senate: Amendment by Senator Stuart agreed to
- 02/24/15 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/24/15 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (30-Y 9-N)
- 02/24/15 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/25/15 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (90-Y 3-N)
- 02/25/15 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (90-Y 3-N)
- 03/06/15 House: Enrolled
- 03/06/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2067ER)
- 03/06/15 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/15 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/10/15 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/10/15
- 03/10/15 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
- 03/27/15 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 674 (effective 7/1/15)
- 03/27/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674)