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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection."
+description: "Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection. Authorizes grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund to be used for flood mitigation and protection measures that are part of a comprehensive flood mitigation and protection plan adopted by the locality, and requires such grants, where practicable, to prioritize projects that include nature-based practices. Current law allows such funds to be used only for the construction, improvement, or repair of a stormwater management facility or for erosion and sediment control."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 1309"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1309 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Adam P. Ebbin"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-01-12"
+last_action: "2021-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aba5dc6c-314b-4bb7-84e5-0b245f88948e"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1309"
+source_hash: "d8c3825b67049628d46fcf785927599701a1c6cab308cf6ac56508423c989e79"
+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 SB 1309 (2021) — Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection.
+
+Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection. Authorizes grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund to be used for flood mitigation and protection measures that are part of a comprehensive flood mitigation and protection plan adopted by the locality, and requires such grants, where practicable, to prioritize projects that include nature-based practices. Current law allows such funds to be used only for the construction, improvement, or repair of a stormwater management facility or for erosion and sediment control.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0380** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0380)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 21103219D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1309S1)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102847D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1309)
+4. **SB1309ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1309ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Local Government with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
+- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102847D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2021-01-18** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2021-01-18** Reported from Local Government with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-18** Committee substitute printed 21103219D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2021-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-01-20** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-20** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2021-01-20** Committee substitute agreed to 21103219D-S1
+- **2021-01-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1309S1
+- **2021-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
+- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns
+- **2021-02-12** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-17** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-17** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
+- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 380 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aba5dc6c-314b-4bb7-84e5-0b245f88948e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+