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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Land use permits; issuance by Department of Transportation."
+description: "Allows the Virginia Department of Transportation (Department) to issue land use permits to the owner of a private residence or business for water and sewer service to cross the Department's right-of-way when no viable alternative exists to provide potable water or to transfer sewer effluent to a qualified drain field as long as the utilities are marked in accord with requirements established by the Department. Currently, the Department may issue land use permits only to a public service company, a company owning or operating an interstate natural gas pipeline, a franchised cable television systems operator, a company that has registered as an operator and has provided proper notification, or a person providing utility service solely for his own agricultural or residential use when the utilities are located on the property owned by the person."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 698"
+citation: "Virginia HB 698 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Public Service Companies", "Transportation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Poindexter"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2018-01-09"
+last_action: "2018-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9638718e-b1d8-4998-9858-7b1bb2a19ced"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB698"
+source_hash: "0a9047e4b936ba9a052914715f2cbd6474526e8d2c35d42bbac48557e22efdef"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 698 (2018) — Land use permits; issuance by Department of Transportation.
+
+Allows the Virginia Department of Transportation (Department) to issue land use permits to the owner of a private residence or business for water and sewer service to cross the Department's right-of-way when no viable alternative exists to provide potable water or to transfer sewer effluent to a qualified drain field as long as the utilities are marked in accord with requirements established by the Department. Currently, the Department may issue land use permits only to a public service company, a company owning or operating an interstate natural gas pipeline, a franchised cable television systems operator, a company that has registered as an operator and has provided proper notification, or a person providing utility service solely for his own agricultural or residential use when the utilities are located on the property owned by the person.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB698ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB698ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104497D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB698)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charles D. Poindexter — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104497D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-01-30** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
+- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
+- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 270 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9638718e-b1d8-4998-9858-7b1bb2a19ced`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+