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2016 SESSION

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SB 529 Menhaden; increases total allowable landings.

Introduced by: Richard H. Stuart | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Menhaden quotas. Increases the total allowable landings for menhaden from 144,272.84 metric tons per year to 158,700.12 metric tons per year. The bill also repeals the sunset provision that would have removed the Virginia Marine Resources Commission's authority to establish the annual harvest cap for the purse seine fishery for Atlantic menhaden.

FULL TEXT

• 01/13/16  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101215D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/22/16  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB529ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 02/29/16  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065)  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/13/16  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101215D
• 01/13/16  Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
• 01/21/16  Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N)
• 01/25/16  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/16  Senate: Read second time and engrossed
• 01/27/16  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/03/16  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/03/16  House: Read first time
• 02/03/16  House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
• 02/17/16  House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N)
• 02/18/16  House: Read second time
• 02/19/16  House: Read third time
• 02/19/16  House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/19/16  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
• 02/22/16  Senate: Enrolled
• 02/22/16  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB529ER)
• 02/22/16  Senate: Signed by President
• 02/22/16  House: Signed by Speaker
• 02/22/16  Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/22/16
• 02/22/16  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 29, 2016
• 02/29/16  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 65 (effective 7/1/16)
• 02/29/16  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065)