HB2170
Virginia Natural Resources Commitment Fund; distribution of certain funds, reports.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Virginia Natural Resources Commitment Fund; reallocation of certain funds for conservation practices.
Allows until July 1, 2027, in any fiscal year, any funds previously distributed to the Virginia Agricultural Best Management Practices Cost-Share Program for the purpose of grants for agricultural best management practices that cannot be obligated by a soil and water conservation district by June 15 during the fiscal year ... (More) to be reallocated by the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board to any soil and water conservation district for conservation practices. The bill also allows the Board to reallocate the remaining previously distributed funds that cannot be obligated by June 15 to the soil and water conservation districts within the same watershed. Finally, the bill directs the Department of Conservation and Recreation to include in its annual reports to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations relating to the clean-up plan for the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia waters the amounts of funds reappropriated between watersheds as provided in the bill. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103885D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/15/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2170)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25105968D-H1
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/03/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2170)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
