SB766
Citizen water quality monitoring; use as evidence in enforcement actions.
Summary
As Introduced. Citizen water quality monitoring; use as evidence in enforcement actions.
Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) to use certain results of citizen water quality testing as evidence in enforcement actions. Such evidence is currently prohibited. The bill also directs the Department to consider in some cases data collected by a citizen group, regardless of whether the data conforms ... (More) to the requirements set out in the Code of Virginia. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/10/2018 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104064D
- 01/10/2018 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/17/2018 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB766)
- 02/01/2018 - Senate: Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/2018 - Senate: Rereferred to Commerce and Labor
- 02/07/2018 - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
