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2021 SESSION
HB 2213 Gold; Secretary of Natural Resources, et al., to study mining and processing.
Introduced by: Elizabeth R. Guzman | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Work group; gold mining; prohibition on permitting; report. Directs the Secretary of Natural Resources, the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to establish a work group to study the mining of gold in the Commonwealth. The bill requires that the study be conducted in consultation with the Virginia Council on Environmental Justice and appropriate stakeholders, including experts in mining, hydrology, toxicology, and other fields; environmental organizations; representatives of potentially affected communities in localities with significant deposits of gold; and residents of Native American communities in such counties.
The bill provides that the work group shall evaluate the impacts of gold mining on public health, safety, and welfare; evaluate whether existing air and water quality regulations are sufficient to protect air and water quality from the mining and processing of gold; and evaluate whether existing bonding, reclamation, closure, and long-term monitoring of sites for such mining or processing are sufficient; and report its findings to the General Assembly by July 1, 2022. The bill also prohibits the issuance of any permit by the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to operate a gold mine of an area larger than 10 acres until July 1, 2023.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102931D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104164D-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102931D
- 01/13/21 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/22/21 House: Reported from Rules (13-Y 5-N)
- 01/25/21 House: Read first time
- 01/26/21 House: Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- 01/26/21 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/27/21 House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 02/02/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104164D-H1
- 02/03/21 House: Read first time
- 02/04/21 House: Read second time
- 02/04/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21104164D-H1
- 02/04/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2213H1
- 02/05/21 House: Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N)
- 02/05/21 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rules (15-Y 0-N)