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Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
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- HB 1277 Industrial hemp; production and manufacturing.
- HB 1298 Noncommercial vessels; reasonable suspicion.
- HB 1324 Boating safety; exemption from education requirement.
- HB 1364 Solid and semisolid industrial wastes; fees for testing and monitoring of land application.
- HB 1488 Conservation easements; tax benefits, disputes over easement terms.
- HB 1507 Dan River; designating certain segment as State Scenic River.
- HB 1516 Wildlife traps; use of remote trap-checking technology.
- HB 1535 Tributary strategies; removes requirement for Secretary of Natural Resources to provide a report.
- HB 1536 Water Quality Improvement Act; references to obsolete tributary strategy plans.
- HB 1542 State Trails Advisory Committee; established, report, sunset provision.
- HB 1565 Companion animals; authority of animal control officers.
- HB 1686 Fish; DGIF shall establish a special permit.
- HB 1734 Living shorelines; loans for creation.
- HB 1811 Clams, cultured; use of handheld devices for harvesting.
- HB 1812 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement; requirements of annual report.
- HB 1817 Flood protection plan; Department of Conservation and Recreation shall regularly update.
- HB 1827 Routine highway maintenance projects; exemption from erosion and sediment control requirements.
- HB 1829 Toxic substances; changes time frame.
- HB 1859 Breaks Interstate Park Commission; employees being commissioned as conservation officers.
- HB 1871 Private wells; registration of wells located in ground water management areas.
- HB 1924 Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee; established, report.
- HB 1961 DGIF; reciprocal law-enforcement agreements.
- HB 2052 Pest Control Compact; repeals Compact.
- HB 2058 Coalbed methane gas; release of funds held in escrow or suspense.
- HB 2067 Daylighted streams; not required to become Resource Protection Area.
- HB 2111 Hunting, trapping, or fishing licenses; electronic copies.
- HB 2193 Virginia Battlefield Preservation Fund; use of grant funds for battlefield preservation.
- HB 2195 Fishing privileges; Marine Resources Commission shall revoke license to fish in tidal water.
- HB 2226 State park master plans; update schedule.
- HB 2240 Blue catfish; introduction, stocking, and release of Blue catfish, exception.
- HB 2246 Wood heaters; Air Pollution Control Board shall not adopt regulations that limit emissions.
- HB 2247 Henry County; DCR to convey certain property in Horsepasture District.
- HB 2257 Coal mine safety; wide tracking and electric equipment shall maintain safe operating conditions.
- HB 2330 Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission; created, financial viability & feasibility.
- HB 2331 Fur-bearing animal; defines fisher in hunting and trapping provisions.
- SB 693 Feral cats; trapping, neutering, and returning to site activity.
- SB 700 Animal Cruelty Conviction List established.
- SB 771 Toxic waste site; to inventory Department of Environmental Quality.
- SB 811 Chemical storage in the Commonwealth; protection of human health and the environment.
- SB 838 Armed forces member; immediate family of a member of armed forces may obtain state resident license.
- SB 858 Breaks Interstate Park; employees being commissioned as conservation officers.
- SB 869 Carbon monoxide emissions; certain diesel-powered incinerators exempted from certain regulations.
- SB 870 Charitable gaming; limits audit and administration fee, adjusted gross receipts.
- SB 955 Industrial hemp production and manufacturing.
- SB 972 Buggs Island Lake; allowed to be referred to as John H. Kerr Reservoir or Kerr Lake.
- SB 996 Boating safety education; exemption for motorboat operators born prior to July 1, 1972.
- SB 1001 Dogs or cats; sell, exchange, etc., prohibited on or in any roadside, parkway, etc.
- SB 1006 Virginia Marine Resources Commission; submerged lands, permit fees.
- SB 1071 Environmental Quality, Department of; raises civil penalties.
- SB 1079 Flood protection plan.
- SB 1081 Equines; prohibits intentional roping of or interference with the legs of an equine.
- SB 1107 Balloons; prohibits release into atmosphere.
- SB 1115 Food and dairy products; sampling of seized products.
- SB 1154 Discharge of deleterious substance into state waters; notice.
- SB 1201 Stormwater; procedure for approval of dredging operations in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
- SB 1203 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan; Little Creek watershed removed from James River Basin.
- SB 1284 Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs); replacement of tributary strategies.
- SB 1292 Sanitary districts; boat ramps, shoreline management, and dredging.
- SB 1306 Battlefield property; authority to acquire.
- SB 1315 Nonhuman primates; acquisition prohibited, penalties.
- SB 1317 Virginia Shoreline Resiliency Fund; established.
- SB 1332 Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission.
- SB 1341 Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Advisory Committee; established, report.
- SB 1365 Carbon dioxide emissions; DEQ to develop state plan to regulate emissions.
- SB 1366 Coal mine safety; wide tracking and electric equipment shall maintain safe operating conditions.
- SB 1376 State park master plans; update schedule.
- SB 1381 Private animal shelter; clarifies purpose and definition.
- SB 1413 Fees for testing and monitoring of land application of industrial wastes.
- SB 1439 Vessel operation; law-enforcement officers prohibited from stopping, etc., without probable cause.
- SB 1440 Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission; financial viability & feasibility.
- SB 1461 Waterfowl blinds; expiration and renewal of licenses in Virginia Beach, late fee, etc.
- SB 1464 Menhaden fishery; management.