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HB 1608 Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund; publicly owned treatment works, nutrient reduction.
Introduced by: Charles D. Poindexter | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
The Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund; publicly owned treatment works; nutrient reduction. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to issue grants from the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund for water quality improvements, including cost effective technologies to reduce loads of total phosphorus, total nitrogen, or nitrogen-containing ammonia, in order to meet certain requirements of ammonia-related regulations that are more stringent than those adopted by the State Water Control Board (the Board). The bill also requires the Department to prepare a preliminary estimate of the amount and timing of Water Quality Improvement Grants required to fund projects to reduce loads of nitrogen-containing ammonia at certain levels based on an estimate of the anticipated range of costs for all publicly owned treatment works if the Board were to adopt the 2013 Aquatic Life Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Ammonia published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This bill is identical to SB 340.
FULL TEXT
- 01/26/18 House: Presented and ordered printed 18106158D pdf
- 02/07/18 House: Committee substitute printed 18106340D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/08/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1608ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/30/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/26/18 House: Unanimous consent to introduce
- 01/26/18 House: Presented and ordered printed 18106158D
- 01/26/18 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/02/18 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #3
- 02/06/18 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (9-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/18 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/18 House: Committee substitute printed 18106340D-H1
- 02/09/18 House: Read first time
- 02/12/18 House: Read second time
- 02/12/18 House: Committee substitute agreed to 18106340D-H1
- 02/12/18 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1608H1
- 02/13/18 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/18 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 03/01/18 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (9-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/18 Senate: Read third time
- 03/06/18 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/18 House: Enrolled
- 03/08/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1608ER)
- 03/08/18 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/18 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/16/18 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 16, 2018
- 03/16/18 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
- 03/30/18 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 609 (effective 7/1/18)
- 03/30/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609)