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2020 SESSION
HB 668 Field investigations permit; definitions, archaeologist qualifications, penalty.
Introduced by: Michael P. Mullin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Field investigations permit; archaeologist qualifications; penalty. Establishes standards for education, experience, ability, and other factors for a field supervisor who is identified in an application to the Director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation for a permit to conduct a field investigation, exploration, or recovery operation involving any object of antiquity on state-controlled land or on a state archaeological site or zone. The bill provides that the Director may consider the field supervisor's performance on any prior permitted investigation in determining whether the person meets such standards. The bill provides that conducting an investigation without a permit or willfully misrepresenting information (i) on a permit application or (ii) collected during a permitted field investigation is a crime punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102911D pdf | impact statement
- 01/29/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106061D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB668ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/10/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1106) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Conference amendments
HISTORY
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102911D
- 01/06/20 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/14/20 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
- 01/29/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/29/20 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (18-Y 4-N)
- 01/29/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106061D-H1
- 01/31/20 House: Read first time
- 02/03/20 House: Read second time
- 02/03/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20106061D-H1
- 02/03/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB668H1
- 02/04/20 House: Read third time and passed House (79-Y 19-N)
- 02/04/20 House: VOTE: Passage (79-Y 19-N)
- 02/05/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/25/20 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendments (11-Y 4-N)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/20 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/28/20 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/28/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/28/20 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (25-Y 12-N)
- 03/02/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/02/20 House: Senate amendments rejected by House (0-Y 100-N)
- 03/02/20 House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 100-N)
- 03/03/20 Senate: Senate insisted on amendments (31-Y 9-N)
- 03/03/20 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 03/04/20 House: House acceded to request
- 03/05/20 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 03/05/20 House: Delegates: Mullin, Keam, Orrock
- 03/05/20 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 03/05/20 Senate: Senators: Petersen, Favola, Ruff
- 03/05/20 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 03/05/20 House: Conference report agreed to by House (70-Y 25-N)
- 03/05/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (70-Y 25-N)
- 03/07/20 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (34-Y 6-N)
- 03/18/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB668ER)
- 03/18/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/19/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/20/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- 03/20/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/10/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 1106 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/10/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1106)