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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tax-exempt pollution control facilities; adds Va. Dept. of Health as a certifying authority."
+description: "Adds to the duties of the Virginia Department of Health the duty of serving as a state certifying authority in determining conformity with state requirements for certain tax-exempt water pollution control projects. Under current law, the State Water Control Board is the only state certifying authority for water pollution projects. The bill contains an emergency clause."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2811"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2811 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Emergency Legislation", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Webert"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72d11986-9051-438e-b060-4ccc8b48d11f"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2811"
+source_hash: "e198e86255aca3f6de4578ed5dd2cd53d68bb7f6818ed7c2e45dc61bddf63de1"
+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 2811 (2019) — Tax-exempt pollution control facilities; adds Va. Dept. of Health as a certifying authority.
+
+Adds to the duties of the Virginia Department of Health the duty of serving as a state certifying authority in determining conformity with state requirements for certain tax-exempt water pollution control projects. Under current law, the State Water Control Board is the only state certifying authority for water pollution projects. The bill contains an emergency clause.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0441)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0441)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2811ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2811ER)
+3. **House: Committee substitute printed 19106140D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2811H1)
+4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19105240D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2811)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Finance with substitute — **19–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael J. Webert — primary (person)
+- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-23** Unanimous consent to introduce
+- **2019-01-23** Presented and ordered printed 19105240D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-23** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute agreed to 19106140D-H1
+- **2019-02-04** Emergency clause added
+- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2811H1
+- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
+- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 441 (effective 3/18/19) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72d11986-9051-438e-b060-4ccc8b48d11f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+