SB616
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 HB 892. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/10/2024 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104857D
- 01/10/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/23/2024 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/23/2024 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2024 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/30/2024 - Senate: Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/31/2024 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2024 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB616)
- 02/01/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/2024 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/02/2024 - Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/02/2024 - Senate: Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/02/2024 - Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/02/2024 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/02/2024 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB616E
- 02/02/2024 - Senate: Printed as engrossed 24104857D-E
- 02/05/2024 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/2024 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB616E)
- 02/13/2024 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/2024 - House: Read first time
- 02/13/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/14/2024 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/2024 - House: Read second time
- 02/19/2024 - House: Read third time
- 02/19/2024 - House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2024 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/2024 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/21/2024 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB616ER)
- 02/21/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/22/2024 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB616ER)
- 02/24/2024 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/01/2024 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024
- 03/01/2024 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024
- 03/08/2024 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 10 (effective 7/1/24)
- 03/08/2024 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0010)
