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2023 SESSION
SB 1178 Stormwater management & erosion & sediment control; installation of permanent gravel access roads.
Introduced by: Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Department of Environmental Quality; stormwater management and erosion and sediment control plans; gravel access roads; electric utilities. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to include specifications regarding certain activities for stormwater management and erosion and sediment control related to the installation of permanent gravel access roads by an electric utility in the next publication of the Department's Virginia Stormwater Management Handbook (the Handbook). The bill permits any electric utility that complies with such specifications to be deemed to satisfy the water quantity technical criteria in the Stormwater Management Act. The bill further allows, until the effective date of the next publication of the Handbook, any new permanent gravel access road associated with the construction and maintenance of electric transmission lines by an electric utility to be deemed to have satisfied the required water quantity technical criteria if certain requirements are met. This bill is identical to HB 2126.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102335D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23106004D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/15/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1178ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/22/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102335D
- 01/10/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/31/23 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23106004D-S1
- 02/02/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/23 Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/23 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/03/23 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 23106004D-S1
- 02/03/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1178S1
- 02/03/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/23 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/23 House: Read first time
- 02/07/23 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/08/23 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (20-Y 2-N)
- 02/10/23 House: Read second time
- 02/13/23 House: Read third time
- 02/13/23 House: Passed House (89-Y 10-N)
- 02/13/23 House: VOTE: Passage (89-Y 10-N)
- 02/15/23 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/15/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1178ER)
- 02/15/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/16/23 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/16/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/27/23 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023
- 02/27/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/22/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 197 (effective 7/1/23)
- 03/22/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0197)