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2024 SESSION
SB 616 Farmland Preservation, Office of; transfers Office to Dept. of Forestry.
Introduced by: Todd E. Pillion | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Department of Forestry; Office of Farmland Preservation transferred. Transfers from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Department of Forestry the Office of Farmland Preservation and its powers and duties and reporting requirements, the Virginia Farm Link Program, the Century Farm Program, and the Virginia Farmland and Forestland Preservation Fund. The bill renames the Office as the Office of Working Lands Preservation. The bill makes technical amendments to effectuate the transfer and requires the Department of Environmental Quality to report to the Department of Forestry by July 1 of each year certain enumerated information about nonpoint source nutrient credits certified in the previous year that involve land use conversion. This bill is identical to HB 892.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104857D pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24104857D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB616ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/08/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104857D
- 01/10/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/23/24 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/31/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/02/24 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/02/24 Senate: Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/02/24 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/02/24 Senate: Finance and Appropriations Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/02/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB616E
- 02/02/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24104857D-E
- 02/05/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/24 House: Read first time
- 02/13/24 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/14/24 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/24 House: Read second time
- 02/19/24 House: Read third time
- 02/19/24 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/21/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB616ER)
- 02/21/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/01/24 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024
- 03/01/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024
- 03/08/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 10 (effective 7/1/24)
- 03/08/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)