SB923
Virginia Water Protection Permit; interbasin transfers of water prohibited.
Summary
As Introduced. Virginia Water Protection Permit; interbasin transfers of water prohibited.
Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from issuing a Virginia Water Protection Permit for a surface water withdrawal if more than five percent of the nonconsumptive volume of such withdrawal will be returned to a different major river basin, as defined in the bill. The bill clarifies that such prohibition ... (More) does not apply to any lawful withdrawal in existence on July 1, 2025. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101113D
- 01/06/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB923)
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25106156D-S1
- 01/28/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB923)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Left in Finance and Appropriations
