HB892
Farmland Preservation, Office of; transfers Office to Dept. of Forestry.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) 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 SB 616. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/09/2024 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104878D
- 01/09/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/23/2024 - House: Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture
- 01/31/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB892)
- 01/31/2024 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/31/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (10-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/07/2024 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/08/2024 - House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
- 02/09/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/2024 - House: Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2024 - House: Read first time
- 02/12/2024 - House: Read second time
- 02/12/2024 - House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/12/2024 - House: Engrossed by House as amended HB892E
- 02/12/2024 - House: Printed as engrossed 24104878D-E
- 02/13/2024 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2024 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB892E)
- 02/14/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/16/2024 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/2024 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/28/2024 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/2024 - Senate: Read third time
- 03/01/2024 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/2024 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2024 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB892ER)
- 03/07/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/2024 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2024 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/2024 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/12/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB892ER)
- 03/26/2024 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 146 (effective 7/1/24)
- 03/26/2024 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146)
