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2021 SESSION
HB 1760 Conservation easements; certain easements be liberally construed in favor of purpose which created.
Introduced by: Michael J. Webert | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Conservation easements; construction. Provides that an easement held pursuant to the Virginia Conservation Easement Act or the Open-Space Land Act shall be construed in favor of achieving the conservation purposes for which it was created.
FULL TEXT
- 12/17/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101159D pdf | impact statement
- 01/20/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21102392D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 12/17/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101159D
- 12/17/20 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/12/21 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
- 01/20/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/21 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21102392D-H1
- 01/21/21 House: Read first time
- 01/22/21 House: Read second time
- 01/22/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21102392D-H1
- 01/22/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1760H1
- 01/25/21 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/26/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)